HEADACHES - Finding Relief From Headaches Starts With Identifying Which Type You Have

Headaches: I've been a practicing chiropractor in Miami Beach for nearly the past 20 years. However after graduating, I started my career in a practice in West Palm Beach where we encountered a patient with a very interesting headache. She initially called the office complaining of a headache. I asked her about her symptoms and told her to go directly to the emergency room. Why? Because her headache symptoms weren't from a simple headache, they were something else entirely. 

She showed up at our office anyway and having a good idea what was going on from our telephone conversation, I immediately called 911 and took her back to examine her. Although she was complaining of a headache, there was more going on. Most of the public isn't aware, but chiropractic physicians are trained to be primary care physicians. So, I examined this lady. Things immediately obvious were that the left side of her mouth wasn't moving as she spoke. I asked her to smile and only the right side of her mouth smiled. I asked her to raise her eyebrows and only the right eye brow elevated. The left side of her nose was runny, the left eye was tearing and her speech was somewhat slurred. Yes, she was having a headache, but the headache was merely a symptom – she was having a stroke. The paramedics arrived and took her to the local emergency room to save her life. This brings to light the many different headaches that are our there. Some are simple headaches where the headache is the primary diagnosis. There are several types of ‘primary headache’, then there are situations where the headache is secondary to another condition, just like the situation I described above. Here’s a list of various headaches. Sometimes the symptoms can be similar between the different types.

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Dr. Narson is a 2-term past president of the Florida Chiropractic Association’s Council on Sports Injuries, Physical Fitness & Rehabilitation and was honored as the recipient of the coveted Chiropractic Sports Physician of the Year Award in 1999-2000. He practices in Miami Beach, Florida at the Miami Beach Family & Sports Chiropractic Center; A Facility for Natural Sports Medicine.

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