if the brain doesn't feel pain...?

Question

why do we get headaches?

Answer 1

A headache is tightness in the muscles in and around your head, not the brain itself.

Answer 2

Although it may feel like it, a headache is not a pain in your brain. Your brain tells you when other parts of your body hurt, but it can't actually feel pain. Most headaches happen outside your skull, in the nerves, blood vessels, and muscles that cover your head and neck. Sometimes the muscles or blood vessels swell, which means they get larger.

They also can tighten or go through other changes that stimulate or put pressure on the surrounding nerves. The nerves send a rush of pain messages to your brain, and you end up with a headache.

Answer 3

Headaches are among most common health complaints worldwide with almost every person has experience some form of headaches. In America, about 1 in every six people (approximately 45 million people) suffers from chronic headaches yearly. Chronic headaches only refer to those recurrent throbbing pains in your head that last for a long time.

There are various nerves and muscles in the head, when one of them becomes irritated, the nerve endings picks up on the pain. You have a headache when you sense pain in the nerves and muscles of the head and neck and the meninges. Meninges are those membranes that cover and protect your brain and the spinal cord.


Types of headaches

Headaches come in different forms and may be felt in different areas of the head, hence we classify them broadly as primary and secondary headaches:

Primary headaches

Primary headaches have nothing to do with underlying medical conditions, and may include:

Cluster headaches
Tension headaches
Migraine headaches
Secondary headaches

Secondary headaches are associated with medical conditions like dental disorders, hypoglycemia, fever and infections. When, for instance, you're suffering from an ear or a sinus infection the nerve endings of the inner ear become inflamed, causing a headache. These nerve endings connect to the sensitive parts of the head such as the brain.

Secondary headaches may also result from increased pressure in the skull or sinuses (sinus headaches), head injury as well as tumors. When you treat the underlying cause of you headaches, your secondary problems (headaches) will probably disappear by itself. You might have noticed that after treating your nasal polyps with SinusWars13 the underlying headache disappeared unconsciously.

Answer 4

Headaches are most commonly caused by muscular tension which then presses against nerve tissue going in and out of the brain. Also, changes in vascular pressure contribute to the feeling of a headache.

Answer 5

My doctor says this is a common misconception. My pain radiates from the inside of my brain. I have inflamed arteries due to complications of brain surgery. The arteries have nerves, otherwise if they ruptured,no one would know they were having a stroke.The gray matter is suffused with capillaries that supply oxygen to the brain. Vascular headaches are caused by the arteries expanding and contracting inside the head. This also causes pain.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

The brain itself is largely insensitive to pain, but it is surrounded by layers of protective membranes called the meninges, which are one of the most pain-sensitive structures within the skull.

Answer 8

There are different reasons why we have headaches. Mainly if you have trauma to your head which causes injury/trauma/bruise to your head/brain. Another thing, if you have a blockage to your nerves that circulates into your brain.

Answer 9

the muscles around the brain feel pain,the nerves feel pain

Answer 10

Ask your doctor about an exercise routine. Regular exercise, such as walking three times a week, may reduce neuropathy pain, improve your muscle strength and help control blood sugar levels. Gentle routines such as yoga and tai chi might also help.