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Migraines
What is Migraine?
A migraine is much more than a bad headache. This neurological disease can cause debilitating throbbing pain that can leave you in bed for days! Movement, light, sound and other triggers may cause symptoms like pain, tiredness, nausea, visual disturbances, numbness and tingling, irritability, difficulty speaking, temporary loss of vision and many more.
Types of Migraine :
An aura is a group of sensory, motor and speech symptoms that usually act like warning signals that a migraine headache is about to begin. Commonly misinterpreted as a seizure or stroke. There are several types of migraines, and the same type may go by different names:- Migraine with aura (complicated migraine) : Around 15% to 20% of people with migraine headaches experience an aura.
- Migraine without aura (common migraine) : This type of migraine headache strikes without the warning an aura may give you. The symptoms are the same, but that phase doesn’t happen.
- Migraine without head pain : “Silent migraine” or “acephalgic migraine,” as this type is also known as, includes the aura symptom but not the headache that typically follows.
- Hemiplegic migraine : You’ll have temporary paralysis (hemiplegia) or neurological or sensory changes on one side of your body.
- Retinal migraine (ocular migraine) : You may notice temporary, partial or complete loss of vision in one of your eyes, along with a dull ache behind the eye that may spread to the rest of your head. That vision loss may last a minute, or as long as months.
- Chronic migraine : A chronic migraine is when a migraine occurs at least 15 days per month. The symptoms may change frequently, and so may the severity of the pain.
- Migraine with brainstem aura : With this migraine, you’ll have vertigo, slurred speech, double vision or loss of balance, which occur before the headache. The headache pain may affect the back of your head.
- Status migrainosus : This is a rare and severe type of migraine that can last longer than 72 hours. The headache pain and nausea can be extremely bad. Certain medications, or medication withdrawal, can cause you to have this type of migraine.
Symptoms :
The primary symptom of migraine is a headache. Pain is sometimes described as pounding or throbbing. It can begin as a dull ache that develops into pulsing pain that is mild, moderate or severe. If left untreated, your headache pain will become moderate to severe. Pain can shift from one side of your head to the other, or it can affect the front of your head, the back of your head or feel like it’s affecting your whole head. Some people feel pain around their eye or temple, and sometimes in their face, sinuses, jaw or neck.Causes :
The cause of migraine headaches is complicated and not fully understood. When you have a headache it’s because specific nerves in your blood vessels send pain signals to your brain. This releases inflammatory substances into the nerves and blood vessels of your head. It’s unclear why your nerves do that.Trusted Expertise
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Treatment
Migraine headaches are chronic. They can’t be cured, but they can be managed and possibly improved. There are two main treatment approaches that use medications: Abortive and Preventive.
This techniques can help temporarily lessen your pain during a migraine attack.Massage , Manual cervical traction, Self-help methods, Stretching.
Some potential benefits of physical therapy that may ease your pain. Physical therapy techniques may:
Physical Therapy:
- Treat migraine-related musculoskeletal problems
- Help ease vestibular symptoms (such as vertigo, dizziness, loss of balance, and sensitivity to motion)
- Improve postural control impairment (issues related to your stability)