The proper treatment will depend on several factors, including the type and frequency of the headache and its cause. Treatment may include education, stress management, biofeedback, and medication and physical therapy education.
Headache education
Education includes learning and recording what triggers the headaches, such as lack of sleep, a poor diet, your environment, or stress. Your health care provider may give you a Headache Diary to record the characteristics of your headaches and can recommend ways of managing headache triggers. Bring the diary with you to all of your doctor appointments; this information will help your health care providers correctly treat your headaches.
Relaxation techniques
Learning relaxation techniques can help you reduce headaches. If you have a headache, you should:
Lie down and relax
Stretch and relax the muscles
Take breaks from activities that trigger or provoke headaches, such as using the computer for long periods of time or exercising strenuously
There are several other methods you can use to relax or reduce stress, including:
Deep breathing exercises
Progressive muscle relaxation
Mental imagery relaxation
Relaxation to music
Biofeedback (explained below)
Counseling, which can help you recognize and release stress
Biofeedback
Biofeedback can help you learn stress-reduction skills by providing information about muscle tension, heart rate, and other vital signs as you try to relax. It is used to gain control over certain bodily functions which cause tension and physical pain.
Biofeedback can be used to help you learn how your body responds in stressful situations. If a headache, such as a migraine, begins slowly, many people can use biofeedback to stop the attack before it becomes full blown.
Medications
Medications may be recommended to manage headache pain. Headache medications can be grouped into three different categories: symptomatic relief, abortive therapy, and preventive therapy. Each type of medication is most effective when used in combination with other medical recommendations, such as dietary and lifestyle changes, exercise, and relaxation therapy.
Symptomatic relief — Used to relieve symptoms associated with headaches, including the pain of a headache or the nausea and vomiting associated with migraine. These may include simple analgesics, ibuprofen or acetaminophen, antiemetics or sedatives. Many of these are available over-the-counter, while others require a prescription.
Important: If symptomatic relief medications are used more than twice a week, you should see your health care provider who can prescribe preventive headache medications. Overuse of these symptomatic medications can actually cause more frequent headaches or worsen headache symptoms.
2007-12-01 19:59:40
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answered by Anonymous
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Without getting into a lengthily discussion about headaches, these are caused by something in the body out of kilter. It['s simple, a fever, a chill, a backache, etc.
Find out what the basic problem is fist then attack the situation. Cold packs on the head are good for now, then what else is wrong?
2007-12-01 20:24:24
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answered by cowboydoc 7
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just take a little medicine then put a cold towel up on your head then rest after that you will be healed .....
2007-12-01 19:53:22
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answered by fernan d 1
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