What causes a headache?
- arterial spasm
- violation of the venous outflow from the cranial cavity and venous stasis
- disturbance of cerebrospinal fluid dynamics
- increase or decrease in blood pressure
- increased intraocular pressure
- trigeminal trigeminal irritation
- inflammatory formations of the brain and its membranes
- neoplasm of the brain and its membranes
- demyelinating diseases
- heart attacks and strokes
- subarachnoid hemorrhage
- ENT diseases
- cervical spine
What type of doctor should the patient go to and what examinations should be done? It is better to start with a visit to a neurologist, this will save the patient from far from always correct therapeutic appointments, analyzes, save the patient’s time and money. Patients with a headache require special attention during examination, a thorough additional examination with mandatory neuroimaging using CT, MRI of the brain and neck, MRI of angiography of the brain vessels according to indications!
Topical Doppler vessels of the brain and neck, x-ray tests on the cervical spine. Consultations of related specialists (if indicated). Palpation of pericranial muscles and muscles of the cervical-collar zone has not lost its significance in order to diagnose muscle tension, myofibrosis, neurofibrosis.
Topical Doppler vessels of the brain and neck, x-ray tests on the cervical spine. Consultations of related specialists (if indicated). Palpation of pericranial muscles and muscles of the cervical-collar zone has not lost its significance in order to diagnose muscle tension, myofibrosis, neurofibrosis.
Most often, in practice, there is a headache of vascular origin, which in ICD-10 is defined as a vascular headache or angioeurological headache. The cause of the occurrence is a functional vasospasm of extracranial and intracranial vessels. With timely diagnosis and complex treatment, this is a reversible process.
What should be the treatment of headache of vascular origin?
The process of treating a headache is not easy. It is necessary to correctly conduct drug therapy, the main purpose of which is the effective removal of vascular spasm. It is worth starting with herbal preparations that have the ability to relax arterial vessels and regulate cerebral blood flow, as well as vitamins, antihypoxants, and antioxidants. Actually active use of reflexology, the purpose of which is to balance the processes of adaptation, homeostasis, smooth the emotional background, stabilize the daily fluctuation of the hormonal background.
Corporate and auricular acupuncture - acupuncture of acupuncture points (TA) of the human body and auricle. It allows you to adjust the tone of the vascular wall through influence through reflexogenic zones, segments of the spinal cord, the reticular formation and the autonomic centers of the brain.
Zonal laser therapy - the effect of infrared laser radiation on reflexogenic zones. In treatment, we use low-frequency infrared laser radiation, which causes a decongestant, analgesic, desensitizing, antispasmodic effect. Zonal cervical-collar zone laser therapy stimulates microcirculation in the vertebral arteries and the main artery, which is especially important in the presence of vascular spasm, enhances the utilization of oxygen and glucose by cells and tissues. A positive result is observed already in the first hours after the session. Thanks to laser therapy, the course of drug therapy is often reduced by 1.5-2 times.
Electropuncture or electrotherapy of the cervical-collar zone is an effective therapeutic technique, the therapeutic effect of which is based on the activation of the corresponding acupuncture points or reflexogenic zones by influencing the electric potential of each point. The therapeutic effect is due to the activation of the endogenous opiate system of the posterior horns of the spinal cord, the reticular formation, the hypothalamus, the basal nuclei, the limbic system, the central gray matter and its activating effect and the thick myelinated fibers. As a result, electropuncture and electrotherapy inhibits the transmission of pain impulses and causes an analgesic effect.
To relieve emotional stress and spasm of pericranial muscles, acupressure of the scalp (scalp zone) and cervical-collar zone is successfully used.
It is advisable to connect gymnastics.
