Chronic headache changes the brain
The early treatment of regular headache is important. Not only that they release concerning of their suffering, they lead during a long period to changes in the brain. Eight million humans are in this country concerned.
Hamburg - chronic headache, which persists over years, usually leads to provable changes in the brain. Contrary to the migraine, which diminishes at the age, from there many patients chronic headache become never more loose, said medicine professor Hans-Christoph servant of the University of Duisburg-Essen. In order to avoid the emergence of chronic headache, humans, who suffer occasionally from headache, must be treated promptly.
Health insurance companies recognize risk patients
Servant is also speaker of the German headache consortium - a project to the investigation of chronic headache, in which eight university hospitals are involved in Germany. Approximately eight million humans suffer servants according to from chronic headache and migraine.
The health insurance companies can recognize promptly so-called risk patients on the basis of false days by the job and prescriptions for medicines, said servants. Who takes for example many pain killers, is rather endangered to get chronic headache. Also a centrifuge trauma after an accident can lead to it. This showed a study at 18.000 humans. An integrated supply - for instance physicians and psychologists work more closely together - can the number of the false days on the job halve, reported servants. (DPA)
