subject: The Indications Of Tmj Disorder [print this page] Finding a workable cure is not always easy to the chronic sufferer of headaches and to the doctor called on to treat the problem. Also, there are a lot of different kinds of head pains and its causes. Primarily a dental problem is one widespread type which is brought on by a bad bite.
In grinding and chewing of food, the jaw joints located in front of the ear are pressured. Place your fingers in front of your ears and gnaw. With this, you will be able to feel the circling of the jaw joint and muscles. Incorrect bite may cause pain to soar.
On either side of the head or both sides at one time are where headaches occur but most commonly, they are felt around the temples. Naturally, if you are eating your food, chewing a gum or flapping your jaw, you feel greater pain. Also, it can get worse if you are someone who has the habit of clenching the jaws when under stress. This disease is referred to as TMJ by dentists and doctors.
An easy way to determine whether a headache comes from TMJ disease is that while chewing, put your fingers into your ears. If pain increases when pressure is applied through the joints of the ears, then this is a sure sign. A dentist might be the only one to solve this problem. The dentist will make you comfortable by not having your jaws to jiggle, and with this, there will be balance on your bite, filling off portions of some, teeth and building up others. It would help if sometimes, jaws are exercised, kept open a bit while sleeping and having a nice brace. Curing this headache is easier and less serious than others such as migraines for migraines cause nausea and vomiting. In migraine, it accompanies blood flow at the arteries outside the head to increase. To solve this problem, medicines that consist of traditional treatment are used to cut down this flow.
Developed seven years ago was a new medicine called propranolol which is used to treat spasm of the blood vessels to the heart. Doctors noticed that some patients have both heart pain called angina, and head pain called migraine. Being cured with the new medicine led to the improvement of the patients' migraine.
Once propranolol is used, the blood vessels of the heart and systemic circulation expand. Heart pain is alleviated while blood pressure is reduced upon doing this. In a study conducted wherein 60 migraine patients were given propranolol and a placebo at one time, half of the patients improved from propranolol.
Propranolol is quite effective for some who are suffering from migraine. Side effects namely diarrhea, abdominal cramps, irritability, sleeplessness or drowsiness go along with it. On the heart and circulation, the drug also has relevant effects. This LSD analog's basic treatment is probably still with methergyside. But propranolol may prove to be a useful medicine for some patients although its side effects are still under study.
