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What is the cause of migraine?

As tension headache is unknown. But migraine is considered a disease of the brain (part of man’s nervous system). Changes to this cause inflammatory changes in the blood vessels that are causing the pain. Trigeminal nerve is also involved as a mechanism of pain.

What is the treatment?

To get a good result is very important to follow these four points:

1. Making a diagnosis by a physician

2. Identify the triggers of the episode

3. Nonpharmacologic Options

4. Pharmacological options Read the rest of this entry »

What are the phases of the migraine attack?

We can distinguish four phases:

1. Podromo

2. Aura

3. Headache phase

4. Resolution and recovery phase

Not all patients are four stages or all attacks pass through them is mandatory

a) prodromal phase, appears in 40% of the people, are a nonspecific symptoms that vary greatly from person to person. May occur up to 48 hours before the crisis of pain, and they can often go unnoticed. They have little predictive value on the intensity or duration of the crisis. Read the rest of this entry »

How do I know it’s migraine and other is headache?

To be absolutely certain of the diagnosis the patient should see your doctor and follow up with a personalized newspaper. Roughly could say that migraine is more common in women than in men by a ratio of 3/1 or so, although children may be slightly higher in males.

The average age of onset, major data, is in the second decade of life, debuting on 85 percent of migraineurs before age 30, reaches a peak prevalence at age 40 and tends to subside with age. Read the rest of this entry »

A migraine is recurrent attacks of headache widely varying in intensity, frequency and duration, usually located on one side of the head, usually associated with nausea and vomiting, also bothered by light and noise, leading to the isolation of the person.

It is a chronic and episodic manifesting in attacks between which the patient is asymptomatic. The start in the first two decades of life, their frequency being variable, although the average of a migraine type varies from one crisis every 2 months and a week crisis. Read the rest of this entry »

What is the cause of tension headache?

The basic mechanism is still uncertain, unknown, although it seems likely that stress and anxiety are triggers. Formerly called him headache muscle contraction on the basis of an alleged excessive contraction of the muscles of the head and neck.

How is tension headache pain in the units?

Once properly diagnosed measures have both pharmacological and nonpharmacological therapies. Read the rest of this entry »

What is tension headache?

These are most common in everyday life, probably 90% of people have had a tension headache in the last year.

The term defines a tension headache pain sensation similar to a compression band around the head, similar to wearing a hat too tight. Read the rest of this entry »

Is it as often as we think?

Yes Headache is one of the most common reasons for consultation in primary care consultations as both Neurology and Pain Unit, since there are published studies with rates of up to 87% of men suffer from headache ever life, reaching 98% of women.

Headache is also a very common cause of low absenteeism, accounting for this reason, an important socioeconomic factor. Read the rest of this entry »

Most of us experience headaches at some point in our lives, some even almost daily, immediately comes to mind a set of questions such as: Should we take the headache?, For the simple reason of suffering from many people are these? normal? Have we learned to live with the pain?, do you have healing?, pains Are all equal?.

All these questions if you do not seek medical response to false conclusions we reach and dangerous to our health, so we must give proper weight to these headaches are so common in our society. Read the rest of this entry »