Sources of Headache Pain
I found an interesting read yesterday on some sources of headaches written Andrea Trescott, M.D. More than 20 million people in the US suffer from severe headaches, and the annual prevalence has increased nearly 60% since 1980. Nearly 80 percent of these patients report headache-related disability that may result in missed work. In fact, nearly 50 percent of headache sufferers are moderately or severely disabled by a headache attack or “migraine” and lose an estimated 13 workdays and 8 leisure days each year.1 “Migraine” is a term of much confusion in the lay public’s mind. Physicians use the term migraine to mean a specific intracranial vascular headache. Patients usually use the term to mean a “sick headache” or a throbbing headache. Pain management doctors treating headache patients are beginning to realize that the symptomatic diagnosis of migraines (unilateral throbbing headache … Read more