If you suffer from headaches more than 15 days in a month or weekly migraines, it may be a chronic headache disorder. The condition can be painful and disabling, but there are treatments available. Neurologist Dr. Jared Bartell explains what can be behind those chronic headaches and how seeing a headache specialist can be your first step to long term relief.
Your lifestyle can make a significant impact on the frequency and intensity of headaches or migraines. Medications can only do so much. Dr. Karly Pippitt explains how improving habits like sleep, stress reduction, and nutrition can help minimize your headaches.
Headaches are a major public health issue. Everything from your daily caffeine intake to the amount of sleep you get can contribute to headaches. Dr. Tom Miller and nurse practitioner Susan Baggaley, M.S.N., discuss the differences between daily headaches and migraines and offer advice on when a headache is severe enough for a visit to the doctor. They also talk about treatment and recovery options for a throbbing headache.
It may start with tightness in your neck, followed by flashes of light in your vision and a feeling of pins and needles in one of your legs. Migraine is...
If you’re prone to chronic headaches, it could be a jaw issue. Dr. Gary Lowder is a professor and practicing dentist at the University of Utah School of Dentistry. He talks about how tension in your jaw muscles and grinding your teeth can cause severe headaches and what a dentist can do to treat it.
From mild annoyance to debilitating pain, almost everyone has experienced a headache. Knowing what triggers migraines is important. Here are four common triggers.
Until recent years, migraine sufferers have been forced to seek relief in the dark, but thanks to researchers at the Moran Eye Center, they now may be able to face...
An estimated 36 million people in the U.S. suffer from chronic migraines, an illness for which there are limited medications and no cure. Dr. K.C. Brennan describes a migraine as a tidal wave of activity that turns up the volume of the senses in the brain and debilitates many people. Listen as Dr. Brennan explains how his and others’ research is revealing more about chronic migraines and that he expects new discoveries in the next 10 years.
