Cullotta Law: What types & causes of headaches follow a Head, Neck, or Brain Injury???

  • March 2010 - Reposted by: CULLOTTA LAW OFFICES - (847) 651-7191 - leading brain, head and neck injury lawyers in Chicago IL.
  • According to Dr. Nathan Zasler an internationally respected neurorehabilitation physician who specializes in acquired brain injury: THERE ARE SEVERAL DIFFERENT TYPES AND CAUSES OF HEADACHE FOLLOWING A BRAIN, HEAD, OR NECK INJURY.
  • 1. Tension Headaches — Tension-type headaches often feel as if your head is being squeezed by a vice at your temples — the sensitive spots at the side of the head between your ears and eyes. A decrease in tolerance for stress, decreased thinking efficiency and reserve, and depression are often associated with tension headaches.
  • 2. Migraine or Neurovascular Headaches — Migraine headaches account for approximately 20 percent of PTHA (although many practitioners will debate this). Migraines are thought to be the result of changes in the blood flow inside the brain. The risk for migraines post-injury appears to be strongly genetically linked.
  • 3. Cervical/Cervicogenic Headaches — This kind of PTHA is common after a brain injury and is usually related to neck injury involving ligament, muscle, and/or joint (facet) injury.
  • 4. Musculoskeletal Headaches — Musculoskeletal headaches are often overlooked but are quite common after a TBI. Pain in the muscles or bones of the head, neck, shoulders, and/or jaw (see below) can be a source of head pain.
  • 5. Temporomandibular Joint Disfunction — TMJD sometimes occurs after trauma and involves injury to the "chewing" muscles around the jaw, or to the jaw joints themselves leading to headaches typically experienced on the side of the head in the temple region(s).
  • 6. Neuritic and Neuralgic Pain — Injury to the nerves in the scalp or larger nerves in the face (e.g. supra-orbital) and upper neck (e.g. greater occipital) from the trauma can result in head discomfort as well as headaches that may present with numbness, sensitivity, and/or shooting- or stabbing-type pains

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