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 What is
Headache? |
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headache is a term used to
describe aching or pain that occurs in one or more areas of
the head, face, mouth, or neck. Headache can be chronic,
recurrent, or occasional. The pain can be mild or severe
enough to disrupt daily activities. Headache involves the
network of nerve fibers in the tissues, muscles, and blood
vessels located in the head and at the base of the skull. |
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What
Causes Headaches? |
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Headaches can be caused by a
variety of reasons. They can be simple problems like
eyestrain to the sinus cavities being inflamed. They can
also arise from life threatening conditions like
encephalitis, brain cancer or cerebral aneurysms. Sometimes
a head injury will also be the cause of headaches.
Some times the Cause Of
Headaches may be attributed to feelings of hunger or
dehydration. The other causes can be muscle contractions in
the shoulders, the neck area, scalp and the jaw. Stress,
depression and anxiety can also be regarded as being the
cause of headaches. |
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Other causes of tension headaches are not getting enough
sleep, overwork, missing mealtimes and using various drugs
and alcohol. Some people will experience tension headaches
due to the types of foods and drinks that they have.
Types of Headache?
While all headaches hurt,
not all headaches hurt alike. They are nearly 130 different
types of headaches. They can be mild, moderate, or extremely
severe and incapacitating. Headaches vary in intensity,
frequency and duration depending upon the headache type and
your sensitivity to them. Headaches can be grouped into two
major headache disorder categories: |
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Primary headaches are those in which the headache represents
the primary symptom of a physiological, or bodily, disorder.
No consistently organic cause can be determined for these
headaches. Such headaches reflect inherited or acquired
disturbances of the brain and its relationship to the rest
of the body. Primary headache types include: Migraine,
headache tension-type, cluster headache, ordinary headache (
a mild form of migraine or tension-type headaches).
Secondary Headache Disorders, these headaches arise as a
symptom of another disorder. More than 300 organic causes of
such headaches exist. Some of the more common secondary
headache types are, post-traumatic headache (one that occurs
as a result of an injury or surgery), reactive headache,
sinus headache, rebound headache. |
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