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which is, agencies are pulling the strings, were organized crime rules. were conglomerates make their own laws? we should light on the opaque worlds behind the benefits. and why are they a threat to what's all this week on d. w a. do you sometimes get headaches? in this installment of dw is health, so might be just the ticket coming up. mm hm. vine, tiny electrical shocks can help treat headaches and how a foot bond with mustard powder. it can also bring relief how botox therapy can
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treat migraines. and when the heat from a hair dryer might be, oh, you need all that and more coming up on this edition of in good shape with every day 1300000000 people around the world, say i have a headache, but our brain itself can't feel pain it doesn't have pain receptors, the sensation of pain comes from somewhere else, from pressure in the maninder, he's oh, blood vessels, headaches are very common. and so all the theories about what causes them a sensation of pressure pounding or throbbing pain, headaches can be occasional or chronic. doctors distinguish between more than 200
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different types of headache, the most common are migraines and tension headaches. but what causes this misery in our head could the rise of smartphones. lita, blaine. it's a question that last name, director of the headache center at berlin's shelley te hospital gets asked a lot to get to thinking she had a there is an all that much by way of reliable researching a few smaller studies have shown an increase in headaches. coinciding with increased use of smartphones, it does seem logical that constantly looking down at your phone could lead to tense muscles, which could trigger tension, headaches, call sprints to the home. we've also seen that headaches and migraines are on the rise and children and teenagers, and one factor is almost certainly increased media and smartphone use from out of medium domino to small phones will too much beer or wine can lead to
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a pounding headache the next day no surprise there, but some people say certain foods give them headaches, like certain kinds of cheese. for example. does anybody, is it one to see visual triggers? very a great deal from one person to the next. i'm very well if you realize you get a headache, whenever you eat a certain kind of cheese, you should avoid it, of course. but there's nothing like a migraine or headache diet that will cure every one of their headaches. i remind lucas to leaning all smells with food. when their head starts to pound, many people just want to lie down and rest. but it's that always a good idea from greenacres to see here. in the case of migraines, it's true that they make many people sensitive to noise and light. so lying down in a quiet dog room can help, even though it's not always possible for other types of headaches like an ordinary tension, headaches, and a little bit of activity can often how this is actually,
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you know, missiles and so here to through them. what matters is what type of headache you have. all you use it up and what tends to help you must in linesman moved then there are people who get a headache when the weather changes skipped its kind of been green of it. there's no such thing as migraine weather, but we do know and our own research bears that out. that certain weather changes can be a trigger for some people come from. it could be a shift from high to low barometric pressure, or the ship from wet to dry or dry to wet. oh, so yes, weather can be a trigger, but you can't generalize it. we find mine on a sudden thunderclap, headache that feels like the worst headache of your life can be a sign of a ruptured aneurism or a brain hemorrhage, especially if it's accompanied by visual symptoms or numbness. if that happens, you should go to the nearest emergency room but doctor name does
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have some tips for the majority of people who suffer from headaches in the beginning musical snap. some people who get frequent headaches can often get some relief from regular endurance exercise that could be jogging, 2 or 3 times a week, or other kinds of endurance activities on it's must be deep relaxation techniques such as progressive muscle, relax sation of the more yoga or whatever you enjoy can also be very helpful in reducing the frequency of headaches. ones and lifestyle factors can also help you stress management because regular sleep and meals and trying to avoid overdoing it . last 2. routes for my drinking. lots of fluids can also help researchers in math . strict found that 7 large glasses of water a day can help relieve migraines or many children these days also suffer from headaches. doctors say they are various reason
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including pressure to do well at school or parents who are too demanding. emotional, stressful, bullying. too much time spent on devices or not enough sleep and physical activity. children with chronic headaches often end up with other problems like frequent absences from school or trouble maintaining friendships. they're also more likely to develop a pain disorder as adults. that's why parents should take chronic headaches. seriously. an experienced pediatrician can help figure out what's causing them and of his strategies were treatment 10 year old max, he had a good day at school today a day without a headache. for the past 3 years, he's been suffering frequent, severe headaches and has missed a lot of school elephant light. i'm. it just hurts a bit when it's dark as well, but then it keeps getting worse. sometimes it gets worse till i vomit. and then it
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starts to get better, get moth done, the tell him of vinegar, vito mac, she gets migraines. every $7.00 to $14.00 days. then he can't go to school or soccer training. hi, sweetheart. his your water bottle, remember to drink a lot, max. his family also suffers when he has a migraine feminine and violence. he just lies there, solving hats vast down on off and then he gets really nauseated and ends up vomiting quite violently several times than current that's matter. it's really awful for me as a mother because i can't do anything to help having max is being treated by neurologist astrid gondola. she is specialized in headaches and migraines and says more and more children and teens are suffering from them. skipped over there are over 200 different kinds of headache among children. migraines, that the most common with and without an aura and aura can involve visual
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disturbances, tingling sensations in your face, difficulty speaking or dizziness and can then their attention. headaches which children describe as feeling like a helmet squeezing their heads. it doesn't get worse with exertion the way a migraine does not. 13 year old for litzy, das also says astrid gondola. she has migraines that are less severe but happen almost every day. so if dish lim as is head scobee about a year and a half ago it got really bad for that much before that. i had a lot of headaches, but after that it got a lot worse. it says ashton, her headaches got worse after she finished elementary school and went on to secondary school can go over says that's not unusual. gordon vaughn and chemist and you had aches in children and teens often have a genetic aspect, meaning they've inherited a tendency to get my grains or headaches. but hormones often play
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a role to especially for girls when they reach puberty. and lifestyle fact has also come into play, the getting the right mix of exercise, exertion and relaxation can help. schools also have a role to play. pa come, they can encourage good nutrition exercise not overdoing it with smartphones. smartphones, realty chances going to start a headache therapy to get her migraines under control. when we set off. yeah, i'm looking forward to being able to play sports again, even when it's warm in the summer. to do more things generally like sports at school and not have headache, slow me down, vinegar and tranquil how we all get headaches from time to time. but when might be a sign of something serious, one sign is when they are accompanied by neurological changes such as confusion, numbness, lead speech. if you get a sudden headache,
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that's the worst headache of your life, you should go to the hospital as quickly as possible. but for more than 90 percent of headache suffer is there's no organic colds, even so there is health stiffened. teufel has specialized in pain medicine for more than 10 years. so he's an expert on the different types of headaches. one especially severe form is cluster headaches. and classes for cough now to people who suffer from cluster headaches get very severe pain on one side of the head. usually it's focused behind the eye and often the eye tears up and gets red. 10 and long we're told was august. cluster headaches are comparatively rare. and mostly affect men. unlike migraines. by them you could enter the in migraines, the pain is usually on one side of the head. but not always. this is, that's just the classic form on the left or the right side. usually it has
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a kind of throbbing or pulsating quality. one and migraines are usually accompanied by other symptoms like sensitivity to light and sounds, or smells, or infinity type. migraines can be debilitating, but tension headaches can also be very painful. the funnel tension headaches tend to involve a sense of tightness or pressure gung patients often described was sensation of pressure pushing down on their head like wearing a cat or a hat. that's 2 ties and focus from all the more than the tension. headaches can also be accompanied by nausea and sensitivity to light, but they tend to be less severe than in migraines of a difficult thing else can picked up by them clear. when a headache strikes, relaxation can help fresh an exercise can often banish attention. headache, but exercise won't help in the middle of a migraine attack by the mcleana dog when it comes to migraines. there are 2 main therapeutic approaches. talking about 1st treating the migraine attacks as they're
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happening in english. and 2nd prophylaxis, where you try to reduce the frequency and severity of migraine attacks. in terms of medication, we have an arsenal of drugs available to us in the 1st or simple traditional pain medications like aspirin and i be broken. that's not going to be a studio. we'll go puffin. there's also a class of medications called trip tains, which can help relieve a cluster or migraine headache. but many patients don't want to depend on medication. that's where other forms of pain relief can help. like a mustard powder, fit valve into a here in the clinic. we also use things like mustard powder for an act of migraine . it's a therapy that comes from anthropocentric medicine. he and many people say it's helpful. that's a good focus on at the 1st sign of a migraine, so kill feet for 10 minutes in lukewarm water mixed with mustard powder. then rinse your feet to remove the oils and as n foundation,
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so fact the mustard seed is pungent and has a nit to. it's not a shorter thought. it's finally ground, which helps release. it's essentially up in had that's the pungent pounds in the side. when the powder comes into contact with the skin, it activates a kind of, whoops, and pain response saxon alabama. math nights. want to help patients tell us that it feels like it's drawing the heat and press out of their head and down towards their feet. maths austin, cough not only progressive muscle relaxation techniques can also help patients focus on tightening and relaxing various muscle groups in sequence that can relieve tension, which in turn helps relieve the headache knowing how and why headaches arise, can also help patients learn how to cope. but sometimes headaches can be a sign of something more serious a fairly her as
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a some headache symptoms could indicate a serious illness. and that could include a ruptured brain aneurism, or meningitis, which is an inflammation of the protective membranes of the brain. so that's something that a doctor needs to look at in an aneurism. the 1st symptom is usually a sudden agonizing had akin deputy. someone with meningitis will often have a high fever off his dog eyes. once other conditions have been ruled out, patients can experiment with things that might help. some people find cold, useful, others warmth, the heat of a hair dry, for example, to relieve headaches that occurred you to tense, neck muscles. with food, i would always encourage patients to try to figure out what helps them what relieves the pain. because on headache sufferers often find very creative solutions or creative people who suffer from headaches should also stay clear of junk food. a
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daily routine with regular balanced meals can help to and during a busy day, meals are also a good time to relax and clean your head. and do you have a question on health, nutrition, fitness, or near research and therapies? then send us an email with a bit of luck. we'll discuss the answer to your question on one of our up a while back sooner, the rang a tang at the dod monsoon. germany had an annoying problem, a headache caused by eating an ice cream too quickly. we humans get it to it's often called a brain freeze or ice cream heading headaches can also be caused by coughing sneezing or even laughing or by sexual activity, which often gets worse with increasing arousal. and weight lifting or exercise can
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cause exertion of headaches. by the way, summers ice cream headache was over in a few minutes. and then she was back to her old self again. but some types of headache can last quite a bit longer and really be a torment like migraines. mm. oh, young i catalina's daughter has had headaches for over 10 years, which became increasingly frequent. they usually start at night service the foolishness often stone and it feels like my head is lying on a rock and i think everything feels really hard. i'm also sensitive to light and noise. i need quiet and dressed, and quite often i have to go and sick leave for a few days, even up to a week because it's the only way i can get through it. and i'll serve mr. shuffle figo. eventually she had
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a headache almost every day. her doctor diagnosed her with migraines. and guess i last how fast you could say migraine is a software disorder or the hardware itself is fine. i found that can be disappointing for the patient and doctor because there's no obvious cause the imaging, he can't tell you what's causing it was a has it appeared by and bit i patients fill out a headache diary as part of the diagnosis. migraines are a disorder of the brain. scientists are still studying exactly what causes them. that sneaky is knock on, especially if we still don't know exactly what's going on during a migraine attack. we know areas of the brain play a role as of including the brain stem, white men in geez, the cerebrum anonymous fun. that's why we also know that some sort of over activation takes place and set neurotransmitters are released. that would normally indicate some sort of inflammatory process. so it has got over activation in the
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brain is what lead to the actual migraine pain. but we still don't know exactly what triggers the attack and how the entire process actually works off as a steamboat full. sonya to get her migraines under control. yana catalina's turtle was 1st prescribed an antidepressant medication that can also help with my grades. but it didn't work for her. now she wants to see if botox therapy can help and it's her 2nd treatment. botox is a nerve blocker, she'll be injected with tiny amounts of it under $31.00 spots on her head and neck . 4 talks foot by now, the botox is transported from the nerves into the brain ending up in the areas associated with migraines. it inhibits the release of inflammatory neurotransmitters, the trigger the migraines, and i was frozen. she'll be coming here for treatments every 3 months.
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the 1st, botox treatment already made a difference of a dish battle homeless. so my migraines have already got quite a bit better. i hardly need painkillers anymore. coach met only when i'm on my period, which is when they tend to flare up ones. but apart from that, i don't need painkillers. any more kind of mass me to come into mil, botox therapy is a treatment not a cure. it's used only for chronic migraines and the effect last up to 3 months. it doesn't work for everyone, but for yana catalina short, so it's made a real difference in will you get only the occasional migraine can generally treat them with painkillers. as cecil salicylic acid known as aspirin, ibuprofen or paracetamol can all health, but these medications can also damage the stomach, kidneys, and liver. taking painkillers too often can even cause more headaches. these
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rebound headaches can become even more frequent or last longer. often people take even more medications when it becomes a vicious cycle. so you shouldn't take painkillers more than 10 times a month without seeing a doctor. a lot of research is also being done on new therapies that don't involve taking medication at all. ah, for years christina showed could only hope that she would one day be able to live without pain. now her wishes come true, thanks to these electrodes at mar, booked institute for medical psychology. she received a groundbreaking form of therapy involving the transmission of electrical stimulus to her right hand. even months after the treatment, she still has pain free. will interest on fall. i'm incredibly grateful.
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i don't know what i would have done without this therapy. so i was taking painkillers, trip tains, and i got i v medication of it has come analysis replacement, but nothing can compare to this treatment. missed didn't po got to see if the others didn't help, didn't really do anything on. but this treatment really wax nicholas as this suits him yet. mm. for years christina, showed suffered from the side effect of the pills she took, which caused stomach inflammation. she decided to try a new treatment that didn't involve medication or its side effects of form of electrical stimulation to relieve her migraines. it was different than anything she tried before. as it is true, please send the electrical current flows to my hand, which is painful of the year to let the sara pay or the stimulation is relaxing so deeply relaxing as
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a tv and sponge the therapy was developed by medical psychologist, carty, cima. the electrical stimulation provides a kind of training for patients who suffer from chronic pain. their bodies learn how to regulate their pain response again. the shuttle horn at anchor brainstem has a small nucleus that regulates pain, blood pressure, blood, sugar, anxiety, and stress. hormones wound in chronic pain, patience is, is what we see is that this regulatory mechanism is suppressed via feel a disaster mad at thoughts. because many of these pain patients have high blood pressure process, which means that the intensity of blood pressure in the carotid arteries doesn't change or damage. so information doesn't get transmitted to the brain stem with am with the results that the brain stem doesn't understand what's happening in the body. we use this stimulus to wake up those receptors effect so that they start transmitting signals again and the brain stem resumes its regulatory function,
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which then low as blood pressure m reduces pain. motzkin for the electrical stimulation therapy is a factor for headaches, but also chronic pain. and phantom pain due to spinal cord injuries and rheumatism . checked in m g n a patent. i remember a patient who had rheumatoid arthritis, what are late onset, rheumatoid arthritis, that began after she was 65 years old and arthritis dinner. and she wanted to visit her children on d, void you. but when she came to us, she could only walk for 10 minutes at a stretch to ones come on after this therapy, she was able to visit her children who live in another country. defeat was that she was able to fly their daughter and see her grandchildren quickly. i get goosebumps every time. i remember that it makes me so happy that she was able to do that again through the american. christina shult also feels like she's been given a new lease on life before the treatment of pain caused
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a major disruption to her daily routines and activities. how do we clean up the oh, my migraines were often triggered by being out in the sun. oh, by here. oh oh oh, does such as garlic and onions off with fever? alcohol, no way. i called king garnished when it was a real burden. when the weather was nice, i'd want to go out for a walk. but as soon as i got out into the sun, i'd get a migraine clothes, good to mclean lost the home field potentially do. we have a lot of patients who have no longer been able to work because of the pain. and i have often to therapy, they could start work again or even go back to their former korea. i know older patients are able to enjoy their retirement more fully. alison, i couldn't even, i doth not, and hard kidneys. it's hoped that other hospitals will also begin offering this therapy for chronic pain. patience like christina showed her development, that could be life changing. and now for
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a little exercise, to clear your head, join in and stay fit with our trainer. earlier. today we'll do shoulder press, 4, shoulder press. you need 2 bottles of water or 2 packages of sugar or if you have to wait, i think your weights on your shoulders. squeeze your stomach, then press the weight up until your arms are straight forward. it and then slowly down, one more time, press the weights up, straight in your arms and down. with shoulder, press your strain, your shoulders and your arms,
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and for your daily routine, you're just going to pick something from a storage or you can put it there. i recommend you do 3 sets of 15 reads. if that's too easy for you to just can do 515 a fun with the shoulder press. that's it from in good shape. see you next time. ah ah, with
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