How to Reduce Headache Frequency

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Dr. Susan Jewell and and on behalf of behalf of Expert Village today I am going to talk to you today about how to recognize and how to treat and live with the pain of headaches. Now in this clip we are going to talk about one of the ways that you could help to reduce the occurrence or the frequency and if you are actually experiencing the headache pain how to live with the pain of headaches. Now one of the ways we could look at it biofeedback. Now there are many biofeedback techniques out there that you could go and find out yourself either through books or on-line websites and one particular very good one that I could recommend is the Biofeedback Certification of America or they have a website, www.bcia.org where you can go on-line and you can find out all the different types of biofeedback techniques that would be helpful that you could lean to help you deal with the headaches that you experience, whether it's tension, cluster or migraine headaches. So biofeedback methods are just techniques to help reduce some of the physiological and biochemical affects that your body undergoes that causes the headache. For example, stress and anxiety are major causes for a lot of tension headaches that we experience in this population. So, if we can find ways to reduce your stress, find ways to relax and reduce anxiety in your body that would also help you to reduce at least the intensity or duration or the occurrence of headaches. And some of these techniques are like I said, you can do visualization techniques where you can place yourself in um, visualize yourself in some kind of calming environment, you use all these images in your head. For example put yourself in a very calm place, quiet place and imagine that you are on a beach, and you can imagine the sand and the smells and that would help you reduce the stress or the anxiety at that moment you are experiencing and especially if you are going through the pain of the migraine at that time. And, so these are some of the ways of biofeedback that you could use to help you deal with the pain of headaches."