Headache

Julia 14y, female S: SUBJECTIVE Chief Complaint (CC): “Headache” History of present illness (HPI): Julia is a 14-year-old young lady who presents with her mother. Julia states that headaches occur one to two times a week and can last 1 to 2 days—puts hands on temple and describes headache as pulsing. She reports pain as 3 out of 5, and is not relieved with Ibuprofen or Naprosyn. No aura. Sometimes they upset her stomach, but she has never vomited. Sleep helps sometimes. The only thing that seems…

Just as the way platelet aggregation causes migraines, its opposite effect, preventing platelet clumping, has been demonstrated to have a healing value for mitigating headaches (Bic et al., 1999). High fat diets may be the first stage to causing platelet aggregation thus prompting migraines (Bic et al., 1999). The main objective of this study was to assess the levels of lipid intake in a diet and observe a correlation,…

memory problems,severe headaches, and they can lead to depression. A couple of severe side effects of high impact hits can be bad headaches for the rest of a person’s life and chronic traumatic encephalopathy. The first piece of evidence supporting bad headaches is “Although he’s learned to manage his symptoms, he wishes his daily headaches would go away.”(last page, second to last paragraph) This evidence is significant because it shows a man that still has daily headaches…

SUNA, otherwise known as "Short-lasting Unilateral Neuralgiform Headache Attacks", is often common in men after the age of 50 years old. This disorder is marked by stabs of moderate to severe throbbing, burning, or piercing pain usually surrounding one side of the head, located explicitly around the eye or temple. The stabbing pain usually peaks through within seconds of the onset and may follow a pattern of increasing and decreasing pain intensity. The SUNA Attacks can usually last up to 4-5…

beta activity, and inhibiting theta activity. Research applying neurofeedback to the treatment of pain has included multiple chronic pain conditions, including chronic back pain, peripheral nerve injury, pain from cancer, fibromyalgia and migraine headaches. Much of the evidence for the use of neurofeedback to treat chronic pain can be found in the following journal article.…

it started with mean headaches’ that would never go away. The headaches’ were so bad it felt like someone was hitting me with a steal pole. Then the next thing you know I started fainting everywhere I went like to the store or at the mall. Me or my family members knew what was going on at the time. So on the 30th of September my aunt Mary decided to take me to the hospital in Florence SC. when I got there the doctor took forever to see me & I was still having mean headaches. So about maybe two…

Approximately twelve percent of American’s suffer form some form of a migraine ("Migraine Facts - Migraine Research Foundation"). Around six to seven percent of men, and about twenty percent of women experience a piercing headache that leaves them on bed rest for four to six days throughout the year (Mitchell, et al.). This particular condition causes over “112 million bedridden days per year” (Evans, et al.). Treatment sought out by individuals who experience migraines “exceeds $24 billion…

If you child is doing poorly in school, their eyesight may be to blame. Children with undetected vision problems often have trouble seeing the board and focusing on their school work, leading to frustration and poor grades. Because children don't typically tell their parents if they are having difficulty with their vision, it's important to watch for these signs that they may need corrective lenses. 1. Squinting Looking through a pinhole reduces the blurriness of an object in the vision by…

This study had a total of 159 subjects on topiramate with a history of migraine as defined by the diagnostic criteria in the international classification of headache disorders. These subjects went through a pretreatment/washer phase of 70 days, including a baseline period (day -28 to day-1). They were then started on a single 25mg tablet of topiramate from day 1 to 7. The dose was then increased subsequently…

consequentialists, using the following example, which he refers to as 'life for headaches': “a vast number of people are experiencing fairly minor headaches, which will continue unabated for another hour, unless an innocent person is killed, in which case they will cease immediately. There is no other way to avoid the headaches. Can we permissibly kill that innocent person in order to avoid the vast number of headaches?” (Norcross 1997:…