What can a headache talk about , in principle? I must say that it is a rather unpleasant and even painful syndrome, which may indicate that not everything is in order with the body. Therefore, depending on which part of the head hurts, you can find out an approximate reason for the appearance of such pain. Although, in fairness, it is worth noting that only on the basis of combat sensations, this will not work.
Take, for example, pain in the back of the head. Very often, it can appear due to severe spasm of the vessels of the head, which usually occurs with hypertension of an arterial nature. In this case, a slight increase in pressure is usually observed. In addition, such pain can also occur as a result of a decrease in the tone of the vessels of the vertebrobasilar basin, in which a decrease in pressure is observed.
Sometimes pain in the back of the head is caused by metabolic disorders in the body. In this case, those pain receptors that are located directly on the walls of blood vessels begin to actively respond to changes in the tone of these vessels. Quite often, such unpleasant sensations are caused by irritation of the nerve endings located in the cervical region, in the form of their deformation after the displacement of the cervical vertebrae.
Here, the pain in the back of the head assumes a “purely” neuralgic character and can intensify at the moment when the person makes an inadvertent movement. Therefore, to eliminate such pain, it is necessary to eliminate the causes of its appearance, i.e. start treating the spine and cervical spine in particular. However, it may happen that if such an unpleasant pain in the back of the head does not go away for a long time, then parasthesia can also join it. The so-called hypersensitivity of the skin of the occipital part.
Exhausting pain can also occur due to cervical migraine. This is a rather serious disease, which will have to be treated for a long time and it is not always possible to achieve quick positive results. The saddest thing about migraine treatment is that you cannot get rid of concomitant migraine hypertension with conventional medications.
From this we can conclude that if you have a headache, then before you start taking any medications inside, you will first need to find out the cause of this pain so as not to harm your health completely.
Pain in the back of the head, except for the cases described above, can also occur with inflammation in the muscles, in which the muscles usually tighten. Be that as it may, the pain in the back of the head is the result of a serious health problem. But this is bad luck - it is not always possible to accurately determine the essence of such a reason.
Thus, if a person tries to establish the causes of such pain on his own, then he is at great risk. Making the right diagnosis yourself is not only difficult, but even impossible. Therefore, if there is a sharp pain in the back of the head, you should not delay a visit to the doctor. And at the doctor’s appointment, you need to tell him in more detail where exactly and what hurts. Based on the patient’s story, the doctor will prescribe an examination first, and then the correct and complete treatment. This is the only way to eliminate the pain in the head itself and its cause.
Although such an unpleasant sensation, you can try to remove it yourself. So, you need to sit on a chair and clasp your head in your hands so that your thumbs are on the upper cheekbones, and all the rest lie on the back of the head. Now you need to carefully tilt your head back, but in the process try to keep the movement a little back with your hands, as if preventing it. So you need to continue for 6 seconds, then relax and slowly lean back in the chair. If the exercise is performed correctly, the neck muscles will stretch and the pain in the back of the head will gradually subside.