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What are headaches triggered by

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Tension, stress, sinus issues

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What are nociceptors triggered byh

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  • Mechanical pressure
  • Chemicals
    -Tissue damage
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Name the extracranical causes of headache

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  • Mucle tension in the scalp
    -Nasal infection
    -uv light exposure
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What is a migrane + symptoms

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Primary headache, with unilateral pain .
- Often with nausea, vomiting, photophobia, phonophobia

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What gender does migranes affect more

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Fwmales

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What is the most common type of headache

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  • Tension Type headache
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What is the 2 most common type of Headache

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Migrane

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What are common triggers for migrane

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  • Tyramine rich foods
    -Alchohol nicotine
    -Stress
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Name the receptor activation amd pathway involved in a migrane

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  • Meningeal nociceptor activation
    + trigeminovascular pathway
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Name the4 stages of a migrane+ what each is associated with

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  • Prodrome- mood changes
    -Aura- speech symptoms
    -Headache- throbbing
    -Postdrome- Fatigue
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What can be used to treat migranes

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  • Ibroprofen, sumatriptan
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Explain the characteristics of Tension type headache

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  • Dull, non pulsating band like + bilateral pain
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What gender is tension type headache more common in

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  • Females
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What is tension type headache triggered by

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  • Stress, depression
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Do people have nausea vomiting and aura in Tension type headache

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No

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Can tension type headache have both photophobia and phonophobia at the same time or individually

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  • No
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Name ways to treat tension type headache

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  • CBT
    ibroprofen
    acetominophen
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What is ckuster headache

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severe, unilateral headache in the periorbital/temporal region

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What geneder is cluster headache more commin in

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males

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What can trigger cluster headaches

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  • Alchohol
    -Histamine
    -Snoking and seasonal changes
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What is treatment for cluster headaches

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  • Sumatriptan
    -100 oxygen therapy
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What is a subdural hematoma

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  • Hemorrhage in the subdural space( between dura matter and arachnoid matter)
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What geneder is subdural hematoma most common in

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What is subdural hematoma caused by

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  • Rupture of bridging veins, which is caused by:
  • Blunt head trauma
    -Falls
    -Shaken baby syndrome
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What are symptoms of subdural hematoma
- Seizures nause and vomiting
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How is subdural hematomas treated
- Surgery or medication like corticosteroids
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What is sinusitis
- Inflammation of the paranasal sinus mucosa
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What seasons is sinusitis most commone
- Early spring and autumn
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What can cause sinusitis
virus, bacteria
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What happens during sinusitis
- Blocked drainage, impaired ciliam thick mucus
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Name the different types of sinusitis+ where the pain is
- Maxillary sinusitis- jaw/dental pain -Frontal sinusitis- headache in lower forehead -Ethmoidal sinusitis - retrorbital pain, (pain arund the nose)
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What is Brwn squard syndrom+ what it cases
Hemisection of the spinal cord causing : -Ipsilateral motor and proprioception loss -Contralateral pain and tempaerature loss
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What are the primary causes of Brown Sequard syndrome
- Trauma, ischemia, infections
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What does the loss of ipsilateral in brown sequard impact
- Corticospinal tact + DCML patwhay
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What does contralateral loss in bown sequard impacr
- Spinothalamic tract
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How is brown sequard syndrome treated
- physical therapy, steroids,
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What is Paresis
Partial weakness
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What is paralysis
Complete loss of voluntary movement
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Name the 2 different types of paresis
- Spastic paresis -Flaccid paresis
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What does spastic paresis result in
- Hypertonia, hyperflexia,+ stifness due to upper motor neuron damage
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What does the Flaccid paresis result in
hypotonia, atrophy, and absent reflex due to lower motor neuron damage
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Name the tracts involed in skeleteal muscle paresus
- corticospinal -Spinothalamic -DCML
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in skeletal muscle paresis what does UMN lesiosn result in
- Postive Babinski sign( toes extend upwards), hyperreflexia
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In skeletal muscle paresis what does LMN lesions result in
- Negative babinski( toes extebd downwards), hyporeflexia
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What is springomyelia
Fluif filled cyst( syrinx) within the spinal cord
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What is the main causes for springomylei
- chiari malformations!!, spinal trauma
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What is the name of the fluid filled cyst in springomyelia
- syrinx
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How is springomyelia treated
- surgical decompression -syrinx drainage

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