What Is Medical Financing? Getting the medical care you need in the U.S. can be very expensive. Even if you have health insurance, your insurance provider may not cover many procedures that are considered to be “elective.”
Headaches are one of the most common pain conditions in the world, and nearly everyone has experienced a headache at some point in their life. Head pain can be incredibly disabling, causing work and school absenteeism, poor sleep and loss of ability to exercise or perform daily activities. And for people who experience chronic headache disorders, living with constant or near-constant pain can lead to anxiety and depression.
Keep reading to learn more about common types of headaches.
Headaches are classified into two main types: primary headaches and secondary headaches. Primary headaches aren’t caused by a medical condition — the headache is the primary condition. Secondary headaches are caused by an underlying condition — the headache is a symptom of something else. There are over 150 different types of headaches. Below is a listing of some of the most common types.
There are several other types of headaches that present as a symptom of something else, including: hangovers, caffeine headaches (from heavy consumption or sudden withdrawal), hormone headaches (also called menstruation headaches), exertion headaches, high blood pressure headaches, infections and tumors.
Chronic daily headaches is the term used to describe headaches that occur at least fifteen days of the month for more than three months. Under the umbrella term chronic daily headaches, there are multiple subtypes of headaches that can become long-lasting. The most common chronic headache conditions include:
The daily or near daily pain from chronic headaches can be quite disabling, preventing you from concentrating at work, playing sports or exercising, enjoying social events or sleeping well.
When is it time to see a doctor for headaches? Occasional head pain is normal, but seek medical care for the following:
The above signs may be an indication that you have a chronic headache disorder.
If you have a secondary headache disorder, treatment focuses on treating the underlying condition. For example, medication overuse headaches typically resolve once you quit taking pain medications. If you have a primary headache disorder or chronic daily headaches, treatment focuses on reducing pain, avoiding triggers and slowing the frequency and severity of headaches.
You and your doctor will work together to create a personalized treatment plan for your headaches. You may need to try several approaches before you find a solution or a combination of treatments that works. Your treatment plan may include:
All chronic conditions — including chronic headache disorders — are complex and difficult to treat, and some conditions don’t respond well to treatment. If you’re living with chronic head pain that’s affecting your quality of life, you may be a candidate for scrambler therapy.
Treatments like scrambler therapy are changing the way chronic pain is understood and treated. Scrambler therapy is a non-invasive, non-drug therapy that provides long-lasting relief for chronic pain conditions. The treatment uses electrostimulation to send rapidly changing non-pain, non-harm messages along the same nerve fibers currently sending pain signals to the brain. Over the course of several treatment sessions, the brain comes to accept the non-pain messages as the dominant signal, overriding the pain signals. Scrambler therapy is built upon the idea that the brain is neuroplastic: the human brain can adapt, change and retrain itself in response to changing circumstances and stimuli.
Scrambler therapy has proven effective for providing long-lasting pain relief for chronic conditions that are resistant to other treatment methods. Treatment sessions are very safe and there are no reported side effects. It’s a safe treatment alternative to strong medications and invasive procedures and surgeries.
Radiant Pain Relief Centres exclusively uses scrambler therapy for the treatment of chronic pain. Because we have focused completely on this type of treatment, we’ve developed a level of expertise you won’t be able to find anywhere else. On average, our patients experience an 84% reduction in pain, and more than 90% of our patients conclude therapy with a pain score of zero or near zero.
We have a start-to-finish comprehensive care model, payment plans and financing options that make scrambler therapy accessible and affordable for everyone with chronic pain. We offer a free evaluation and free scrambler therapy session so that you can make an informed decision on whether or not this treatment is right for you before you invest.
If you’re living with chronic pain that’s decreasing your quality of life, please call us today or submit a contact form for more information.
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