22 Sep 🤔Wondering when does a Headache become a Migraine Not sure if you have severe 🤕headaches or migraines 🤯

The International Headache Society uses the following criteria to classify a headache as a migraine when:
(a) the head pain 🤕can be classified by at least two of the following:
✅ one sided
✅ moderate to severe
✅ throbbing, or
✅ aggravated by movement

(b) there is at least one of the following associated symptoms:
✅ nausea
✅ vomiting
✅ photophobia (sensitivity to light) or
✅ phonophobia (sensitivity to noise)

(c) the headache lasts for between 4 and 72 hours.

Other symptoms that may be experienced include
-osmophobia (sensitivity to smell)
-aura (visual disturbances such as bright zigzag lines, flashing lights, difficulty in focusing or blind spots lasting 20-45 minutes)
-difficulty in concentrating,
-confusion
-a feeling of being generally extremely unwell
-problems with articulation or co-ordination
-stiffness of the neck and shoulders
-tingling, pins and needles or numbness or even one-sided limb weakness
-speech disturbance

So if you experience the above symptoms as described, you have migraines!😳 Migraines may occur recurrently over many years or even decades. Frequency may vary greatly in the same person over time, from a few a year up to several a week. Unfortunately when people seek treatment for their migraines, they are often strategies for their migraines is the prevention or management through medications💊. However people must understand medications only mask the pain and not solve the problem.

Luckily here at My Favourite Physio, our Expert Physiotherapists 🤓offer a Medication Free Solution for migraines. 🙅‍♀️It doesn’t involve medication, it doesn’t involve cracking joints and most importantly it can give you long term relief. Our Expert Physiotherapists are specially trained 🤓in Headache and Migraine Treatment and have a unique method of assessing and treating migraines and headaches. To find out more, ring My Favourite Physio 📱on (02) 9790 4233 or DM us @myfavouritephysio to speak to one of our Expert Physiotherapist today!

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