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Causes of Headaches & Facial Pain
There are many causes for headaches and facial pain. One of the most common is migraine headaches which affect about 12% of the population.
What is Migraine?
If a headache has two of the four qualities below and is either associated with nausea or is worse with light or noise, it may be diagnosed as a migraine after excluding other causes of headaches:
- Severe in intensity
- Worse with activity
- Affecting one side of the head
- Throbbing in nature
Prevention
Migraine feeds on change. Try to have a fixed daily routine of sleeping, eating and exercising.
Treatment
- If the headache is frequent (more than 6 days of headaches in a month), we use preventive medications to decrease the frequency and intensity of the headaches.
- We use acute medications to stop headaches, which should not be used more than twice a week to avoid medication overuse headaches.
- If medications are not effective we use interventional procedure.
We perform the following interventional procedures to treat headaches and facial pain:
C2-C3 and Third Occipital Nerve radiofrequency ablation.
Occipital nerve blocks.
Botox injections for chronic migraine headaches.
Trigeminal nerve blocks.
Sphenopalatine ganglion blocks.