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HEADACHE TYPES:
THE FACTS YOU NEED TO KNOW



Bottom Line:
Almost everyone will experience a headache at some point in their life, and over 50% of people will deal with the effects of headaches in a given year. Fortunately, headaches are rarely life-threatening. However, for people dealing with chronic headaches they can dramatically impact your quality of life.

Why it Matters:
The International Headache Society has classified over 150 different types of headaches. The most common being migraines and tension headaches. Migraines are triggered by chemical imbalances within the body and can cause a pulsating or throbbing pain often felt at the front or side of the head.

You can identify a migraine through the symptoms experienced before and during, these symptoms can include: nausea, vomiting and sensitivity to light, sound and smell. Migraines can very between a few hours to few days!

Tension type headache are often caused by stress, anxiety, dehydration, and posture can trigger these types of headache, leading to stiffness within the neck and upper back with an associated diffused dull ache.


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Next Steps:
Here at the AMI Clinic, we see lots of patients who suffer with migraines and tension types of headache. With spinal manipulation, mobilization, myofascial and exercise therapies we can help in lowering the frequency and intensity of these types of headaches, whilst offering advice on simple lifestyle changes patients can make that will further reduce the initial onset of these types of headaches.

Next week, we'll cover the top 3 causes of headaches so you will be able to take your first steps towards prevention. Often a few simple changes in your daily routine have the potential to reduce or eliminate chronic headaches for good!

Science Source:
Mayo Clinic. Headache. 2018

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Visit the AMI Clinic in Bedford to get yourself checked and corrected!
Call us: 01234 307565

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