Migraine headaches and Tension headaches Author: Dennis Cheesman Website: http://www.headache-doctor.com Added: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 19:40:18 -0400 Category: Headache Relief Tips

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All kinds of pains are bad. But there is nothing as mentally exhausting as a headache. It affects our well-being, our productivity and even our social existence. After a headache we feel mentally drained and physically exhausted. But then we come to the interesting question, should a bad headache keep a good man down? To find a solution to this question, it is important that we understand more about headaches.

Headaches are of different types. They can be identified as headaches due to migraine, sinus and tension. Now these headaches are very different but they do affect the same part that is the head in general. So if we understand more about them we can reach an interesting conclusion.

And you know what that is? Headaches are largely preventable. Of course there are a lot of cures available over the counter now but do we really have to wait for the headache to start to resort to treatment? Isn't prevention better than cure? Isn't it better to be proactive than reactive?

I have included 101 tips on how to prevent headaches below. But before we go to the tips, it might be useful to have at least a superficial understanding of the different types of headaches.

Now whatever is the cause or whatever be the nature of the headache, most headaches are preventable. There is no need to endure the pain when you really have an option. Follow the tips given and you will be amazed to find that the prevention is actually in your hands, some types of headaches are as follow..

• migraine headaches
  
• cluster headaches
  
• sinus headaches
  
• tension headaches
  
• chronic headaches

A migraine is a splitting headache that just seems to set in apparently due to no reason at all. The reasons for a migraine are mainly vascular. That means that certain changes in the blood vessels that supply blood to the brain trigger of the pain. Of course, the causes for the changes in the blood vessels may vary from person to person but this is generally how it starts

• Migraines are easily the most common headache syndrome.
  
• It affects 10 to 15 percent of the global population
  
• One peculiar feature of a migraine is that it usually starts in childhood or adolescence and is most common in young and middle-aged adults.

The only good thing about a migraine is that it usually stops as people get older. Migraines have nothing to do with a person's background, upbringing, or social class. Migraines do not discriminate.

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