Headache Menace
Medgeeks with Andrew Reid
Medgeeks
4.8 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Headaches…everyone gets a headache now and then. For some people, headaches occur if they don't get their morning cup of coffee on time. For others, headaches are connected to life stressors.
Headaches are very plentiful amongst numerous alignments, both physical and mental. Regardless of the cause, headaches are incredibly common and there are numerous kinds!
Today we are going to start by analyzing headaches. Then we'll do a deep-drive into tension headaches, along with less-common types of headaches that we don't really see in day-to-day clinical practice but are important for you to know about to give your patients the best quality of care.
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| 0:00.0 | Headaches. Everyone gets a headache now and then, and if you're like me, you will get a headache if you don't get your morning cup of coffee on time. |
| 0:08.0 | For others, headaches are connected to life stressors. It can be any number of them. Perhaps it's the traffic getting to work, |
| 0:15.3 | or maybe you can attribute your headache to another person. Perhaps a significant other, |
| 0:19.8 | a world leader, or another podcast host who is |
| 0:22.8 | simply inaccurate and spreads misinformation. |
| 0:25.1 | Hmm. |
| 0:26.1 | In health care we have numerous reasons to have headaches. |
| 0:29.4 | Just take the last couple of years. |
| 0:31.4 | PPE shortages, anti-vaccination protests, back-to-work |
| 0:35.6 | protocols that really don't make sense, or maybe it was simply the pain of |
| 0:39.6 | seeing so many people succumb unnecessarily to the pandemic. |
| 0:44.1 | Headaches were very plentiful amongst numerous ailments, both physical and mental, that we |
| 0:48.6 | in the health industry had to deal with. |
| 0:51.3 | Regardless of the cause, headaches are incredibly common and there are numerous kinds, like the ones I mentioned that range from caffeine withdrawal to cold stimulus headache, which is a fancy way of saying brain freeze the headaches |
| 1:03.5 | associate with vigorous exercise. I do believe those are the kinds that Garfield |
| 1:07.8 | the cat would get and that's probably why he never exercised. I'm just |
| 1:11.3 | kidding for all you cat lovers out there. Garfield was just obese, but today |
| 1:14.8 | we're going to start by analyzing headaches and then we're going to deep dive into the |
| 1:19.1 | tension type headaches along with the fewer less common types that we don't necessarily see in day-to-day |
| 1:24.8 | clinical practice but it's a good idea to be aware of them. Next week we'll |
| 1:29.1 | split up time into migraines and cluster headaches. Hopefully by the end of today's episode, |
| 1:33.6 | which I've aptly named the headache menace. |
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