Showing posts with label Sleep Assessment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sleep Assessment. Show all posts

Monday, May 22, 2017

An Unsuspected Cause of Headaches

  
     Trying to identify the cause(s) of chronic, unrelenting headaches that plague some unfortunate patients is a challenge faced by Medical Doctors and Doctors of Chiropractic alike. There are many different types of headaches, and multiple causes.
     Food triggers may be involved, in which a person gets headaches when they ingest certain foods or food additives. Stress, both biomechanical and emotional / psychological, is often part of the picture.
     Now sleep apnea has emerged as a not-uncommon culprit. The mechanism is a disturbance in proportions of oxygen & carbon dioxide caused by interruptions or aberrance of breathing.
     For patients whose headaches seem insoluble, appropriate professional sleep assessment studies may yield a solution.