Hello! I work as a doctor for 21 years. My name is George O. Sapego. This article will discuss the headaches of physical effort.
Some people have a headache from the exercise. It is also called a headache physical effort. It's kind of a bad headache. It is divided into two types: primary and secondary.
Primary headache exertion harmless. For her, there is no apparent reason, and just have a headache from stress.
Another is a secondary headache, when in the brain there is something very wrong.
Who is right and left make different kinds of tomograms and constantly finding some new exact cause for the headache by physical exertion. It turns out that the proportion of secondary headaches is constantly increasing.
Generally such a headache is not very common.
When the researchers summarize, it turns out that among people with headache physical effort of approximately 10 - 20% have a tumor or something similar in mind.
Headache physical effort usually comes out of nowhere. Often patients have got something from this list:
- head injury;
- a brain tumor;
- cerebral aneurysms;
- intracranial hemorrhage.
No one knows exactly how it started such a headache. Suspect that the tension of the muscles and straining increases blood pressure in the veins. Pressure is distributed up into the brain, and there are stretched sensitive blood vessel walls or lining of the brain. It's like a migraine, when hurt dramatically expanded vessels.
It may be that some people are just very low pain threshold and his head starts to hurt from anything.
They also say that jugular Vienna on the neck of some people defectives and too easily betray the blood pressure in the head. From this increased intracranial pressure.
Yet there is a suspicion that people with a headache blood vessels easily lose their tone and remain dilated. It is such a characteristic.
As it happens
During exercise or immediately after her throbbing headache appears. This often happens in the heat or in the highlands.
My head aches symmetrically on both sides.
Pain can last from 5 minutes to 48 hours.
Runs such pain exercise. If you do not move, then the head will not get sick.
usually no nausea and vomiting.
Such headaches may be 20% or athletes at 1 - 10% of ordinary people.
Diagnosis
To solemnly neurologist diagnosed, should be here these signs:
- At least two cases of a headache;
- such pain is triggered only exercise and nothing more;
- pain lasts less than 48 hours;
- This pain is not like other types of headaches.
Every time a person comes to a neurologist with a headache, the physician decides whether to make him a CT scan is necessary, MRI, angiography, or even something similar. It is important to find the cause of life-threatening like a tumor or aneurysm of blood vessels.
Tomogram do not all and not immediately. There are certain signs by which select candidates for such examination. Immediately inspect:
- people older than 40 years;
- those who have a headache several hours;
- if a person is sick and vomiting;
- if you have any neurological symptoms (something to take away, lost sensitivity and all that).
For most people a headache physical effort takes place a few years later and no longer worried.
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