Once regarded as a passing pain, headaches are proving to have more drastic and long-term effects on people. Researchers found those who suffer from frequent migraines have an increased risk of brain damage. In some cases, migraines worsen over time, rendering some disabled in their everyday lifestyle.
One researcher discovered that in a year's time, 3 percent of headache sufferers advanced to a point where they experienced headaches almost on a daily basis.
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Researchers have significantly altered their view of the occurrence and effect of migraines. In the 1980s migraines were considered "episodic" in nature - occurring time to time, whereas in the 1990s they were categorized as a chronic episodic disorder, with predisposition to attacks.
Today, researchers have recognized a subgroup of migraine sufferers with more frequent and disabling attacks. This finding raised questions over the possibility that migraines produced changes in the brain.
Amidst these findings, some researchers commented that migraines were approaching an "exciting new era," in that prevention could be a possibility.
Though there are no specific disease-modifying drugs available for those suffering from progressive or disabling migraines, brain-imaging techniques may aid doctors in treating migraine sufferers. With this imaging, doctors will be able to "see" a patient's pain.
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As noted above, as of yet there are no disease-modifying drugs available for those patients suffering from migraines. Of course, the traditional medical paradigm focuses on the use of drugs to resolve this problem, but there are far better solutions. Drugs will never address the cause of the problem. Drugs never get to the root of the problem.
In my practice, I've found most migraines seem to have a food-based reaction relating to wheat, dairy, sugar, or artificial preservatives or chemicals. Migraines can be improved by eliminating these foods and incorporating the other eating plan measures as spelled out in my nutrition plan.
Generally there is a 70-80 percent reduction in the frequency and intensity of the pain after people begin following the eating plan that you can study in more detail in my book, Total Health Program.
Migraines are another example of a physical problem that usually has an underlying emotional cause.
Psychological acupuncture approaches are incredibly effective in treating headaches and are also great tools for targeting emotional causes. For this I recommend the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), which involves tapping on specific energy meridians and has been incredibly successful in providing permanent relief to many of my patients.
This technique is similar to acupuncture in that it deals with your body's energy meridians, however is less invasive since it doesn't involve the use of needles and for mild conditions can be performed without going to see a practitioner. The importance of emotional health is often overlooked and I can't express how critical it is to maintaining your physical health.
Headaches are very common problems for many people who see me for the first visit, but the vast majority of people who return in one month for their follow-up visit tell me that their headaches are gone.
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