A Guide to Headaches and Migraines
Symptoms; Causes; Treatment; Prevention
Published on 30. June 2015
224 pages
978-1-84205-679-0 (ISBN)
Description
A guide to headaches and migraines. It provides descriptions of mild and severe headaches, with symptoms, causes and treatments for the main types of headaches. With advice, treatment and prevention guidelines.
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10/2014
Geddes & Grosset
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Content
- Cover
- Title page
- Medical Advice
- HEADACHES AND MIGRAINES: SYMPTOMS, CAUSES AND TREATMENT
- INTRODUCTION
- DEFINITIONS AND TERMS: HEADACHE OR MIGRAINE?
- Primary and secondary headaches
- Acute and chronic headaches
- Types of primary headache
- TENSION HEADACHES
- What is a tension headache?
- Causes
- Treatment
- Prevention
- CLUSTER HEADACHES
- What are cluster headaches?
- Causes
- Cluster headache triggers
- Treatment
- Prevention
- MIGRAINE HEADACHES
- What is a migraine headache?
- Migraine without aura
- Migraine with aura
- Causes
- Migraine attack triggers
- Treatment
- Prevention
- Rare forms of migraine
- Migraine and epilepsy
- CHRONIC DAILY HEADACHES (CDH)
- What are chronic daily headaches?
- Causes
- Treatment
- KEEPING A HEADACHE DIARY
- HEADACHES IN CHILDREN
- A SUMMARY OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND LIFESTYLE CAUSES OF HEADACHES
- Alcohol
- Food and drink
- Hypoglycaemia and dehydration
- Stress and anxiety
- Sleep disorders
- Exercise
- Environmental pollution
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Altitude sickness
- Caisson disease
- EFFECTS OF HEADACHES AND MIGRAINES ON EVERYDAY LIFE
- The experience of pain
- Headache pain
- Getting help
- Short pain inventory (SPI)
- SECONDARY HEADACHES: POSSIBLE CAUSES
- Common cold
- Influenza
- Food poisoning
- Norovirus (winter vomiting bug)
- Dental problems
- Temporomandibular joint dysfunction
- Temporal arteritis, giant cell arteritis
- Neck diseases and disorders
- Chickenpox
- Shingles
- Post-herpetic neuralgia
- Trigeminal neuralgia, tic doloureux
- German measles, rubella
- Measles
- Scarlet fever, scarletina
- Diabetes
- Acute, narrow angle glaucoma, primary angle closure glaucoma
- Hypertension, high blood pressure
- Sinusitis
- Antiphospholipid syndrome (ASS), 'sticky blood' syndrome, Hughes syndrome
- Aneurysm
- Stroke
- Subarachnoid haemorrhage
- Subdural haemorrhage, subdural haematoma, acute and chronic
- Arteriovenous malformation of the brain (AVM)
- Concussion
- Meningitis
- Glandular fever, infectious mononucleosis
- Myalgic encephalopathy/encephalomyelitis (ME), chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), post-viral fatigue s
- Fibromyalgia (FMS)
- Lyme disease
- Cat scratch fever
- Encephalitis
- Heatstroke, heat hyperpyrexia
- Brain tumour
- Q fever
- Phaeochromocytoma
- Polycythaemia rubra vera, secondary polycythaemia
- Malaria
- Toxic shock syndrome (TSS)
- Leptospirosis
- Rat bite fever
- Typhoid fever
- Typhus
- Mediterranean spotted fever (MSF), boutonneuse fever
- Ehrlichiosis, ehrlichia infection
- Rocky Mountain spotted fever
- Brucellosis, undulant fever, Malta fever, Mediterranean fever
- Yellow fever
- Lassa fever
- Dengue fever, 'breakbone fever', dandy fever
- West Nile virus (WNV)
- SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome)
- WHEN TO SEEK MEDICAL HELP
- COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES AND HOW THEY CAN HELP
- MIND AND BODY
- ACUPRESSURE
- Origins
- Treatment
- ACUPUNCTURE
- Origins
- Treatment
- How does it work?
- THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE
- Origins
- Armouring
- Treatment
- AROMATHERAPY
- Healing through aromatherapy
- Origins
- Essential oils
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Conditions that may benefit from aromatherapy
- Consulting a professional aromatherapist
- BIOFEEDBACK
- CHIROPRACTIC
- Origins
- Conditions that may benefit from chiropractic
- Treatment
- CRANIAL OSTEOPATHY
- HERBALISM
- The nature of herbalism
- The origins and history of herbalism
- The relevance of herbal medicine today
- Forms of herbal preparations
- Herbal preparations for headaches
- Soothing herbal drinks
- HOMEOPATHY
- The homeopathic approach
- Like cures like
- Homeopathic remedies
- Treatment
- Homeopathic medicines for headaches
- MEDITATION AND YOGA
- Meditation
- The need for a teacher
- Yoga
- Yoga postures for meditation
- The meditation session
- OSTEOPATHY
- What is osteopathy?
- Treatment
- REFLEXOLOGY
- What is reflexology?
- Treatment
- SHIATSU
- What is shiatsu?
- Treatment
- Appendix
- USEFUL ORGANISATIONS
- OTHER BOOKS IN THIS SERIES
- A Guide To Back Pain
- A Guide to Diabetes
- Healing Foods
- Live Longer, Extend Your Life
- How to Look Great on any Budget
- Positive Thinking, Positive Living
- Understanding Phobias
- Copyright
