Headache in Hyderabad

Headache

Introduction

There are two main types of headache:

• Primary headaches: where headache is the disease itself
• Secondary headaches: where headache is a symptom of other medical conditions

What are the common causes of primary headache?

• Migraine: This is a complicated medical condition where the primary symptom is excruciating headache, usually on one side. Other symptoms include feeling sick, vomiting, disturbed vision, and sensitivity to light, sound, and smells.
• Tension-type headache: It is a very common cause of headache. The pain usually affects both sides of the head and is described as a band around the head.
• Cluster headache: It is characterised by extremely painful, recurrent, headaches usually on one side of the head, typically around the eye. There is often also eye watering, nasal congestion, or swelling around the eye.

What are the common causes of secondary headache?

• Cervicogenic headaches are caused by a disorder of the neck (cervical spine) where the pain radiates to the face and or head.
• Whiplash is a neck injury caused by a strain, sprain, or tear in the soft tissues (muscles and ligaments). It is usually caused by a sudden and severe neck movement e.g. like what may occur during a car accident or fall.
• Serious headaches needing immediate headache treatment in Himayatnagar include medical conditions like:tears in blood vessels (dissection), swellings (aneurysms), clots (thrombus), strokes (CVA), bleeding in the brain (intracranial haemorrhage). Infections and tumours.
• Chronic headache: Headaches lasting more than 3 months
• Chronic migraine: If someone experiences headaches more than 15 days per month with a migraine on at least 8 of those days.
• Chronic daily headaches are headaches of almost any type that occur very frequently, at least 15 days per month, over a period of six months or more.
• Medication overuse headaches (rebound headaches). Sometimes pain medications can themselves be the cause of chronic headaches. These headaches can even occur every day.

What pain interventions are available to treat headaches at best hospitals for migraine in Hyderabad?

• Nerve blocks
  • Sphenopalantine nerveblock
  • Supraorbital or supra-trochlear nerveblocks
  • Mandibular nerve
  • Auriculotemporal nerveblock
  • Greater, lesser and 3rdOccipital nerve blocks
• Ganglion blocks
  • Stellate ganglion block
• Botox Injections
• Radiofrequency Ablation
  • Facial and occipital nerves (conventional or pulsed) for long term pain relief
  • Medial branches of facets
• Neuromodulation techniques

Detailed history can help pinpoint causes, triggers and potential solutions. Therefore, make a careful and detailed note about headache experiences before you consult best doctors for headache in Himayatnagar, Dr. G. Ram Mohan at chronic pain medicine centers in Himayatnagar.

We offer chronic headach treatment for people who lives in and around Himayat Nagar, Ashok nagar, Somajiguda, Khairatabad and Hyderabad.