Headaches are the most common health condition. Almost every living human gets headache at least once in a lifetime. The reasons may be as simple as loss of regular sleep, missing a timely cup of tea & traffic snarls or as complicated as a brain tumor, bleeding inside the head (intracranial hematoma) or brain contusion.
International headache society classifies headaches in two major groups :
Primary i.e. Where no other pathology could be identified and the only symptom is headache e.g. migraine or cluster headaches or Secondary headaches: when a clear separate pathological entity can be identified e.g. brain tumor Secondary headaches are treated by getting rid of or treating the underlying pathology, primary headaches are difficult to treat. Sometimes these can be kept in control with medicine. But in most instances the headaches get difficult to manage with medicine only and it becomes frustrating for the physicians as well as the patients. It also becomes problematic for the family members to keep changing from one physician to another in hunt of a better remedy.
In such patients interventions, minimal invasive procedures, are a boon. SPHENOPALATINE GANGLION block and TRIGEMINAL GANGLION block by using RFA (radio-frequency ablation) is a promising procedure. This involves delivering electric energy to the nerves that cause headache and control it’s intensity. By delivering electric energy we produce heat around the nerve and reduces it’s capacity to carry pain. This technique reduces the pain to a large extent.
People suffering from chronic long term headaches that is not getting relieved by medicine can get a benefit to of this procedure.
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