Histricamente, la medicina ha centrado sus esfuerzos en patologas graves y potencialmente mortales. Sin embargo, hay enfermedades en apariencia inofensivas que igualmente pueden minar la vida de quien las padece. Este es el caso de las cefaleas, uno de los trastornos ms habituales del sistema nervioso. De hecho, se estima que cerca de la mitad de la poblacin mundial sufre o ha sufrido dolor de cabeza en algn momento de su vida. Hay ms de ciento cincuenta tipos de cefaleas, con distintas causas, formas e intensidades, y algunos de ellos, como la migraa, pueden llegar a ser del todo incapacitantes en el da a da de una persona. Por ello, es importante conocerlos, identificarlos y darles la importancia que merecen. El doctor Jess Porta-Etessam, especialista en neurologa y patologas asociadas al sistema nervioso, nos acerca las claves para enfrentarnos a ellos y mejorar nuestra calidad de vida. Y nos ayuda, al fin, a arrojar algo de luz sobre un tema que afecta a tanta gente y sobre el que an planean tantas incgnitas. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Understand your headaches and discover how to treat them by following the advice of one of the Spain's leading neurologists. Historically, medical science has focused its efforts on serious and potentially fatal diseases. Other health problems, however, may seem relatively minor but can still derail the lives of those who suffer them. This is true of headaches, one of the most common disorders of the nervous system. In fact, close to half of the world population is estimated to have had a headache at some point. There are more than 150 types of headaches of differing causes, symptoms and intensity. Some of them, such as migraines, can be completely incapacitating. This is why it is so important to identify them, understand them and treat them with the seriousness they deserve. Dr. Jess Porta-Etessam, a neurologist specializing in pathologies associated with the nervous system, gives us the keys to manage headaches and improve our quality of life. In the process, he sheds much-needed light on a problem that affects so many people but about which little is known.
Histricamente, la medicina ha centrado sus esfuerzos en patologas graves y potencialmente mortales. Sin embargo, hay enfermedades en apariencia inofensivas que igualmente pueden minar la vida de quien las padece. Este es el caso de las cefaleas, uno de los trastornos ms habituales del sistema nervioso. De hecho, se estima que cerca de la mitad de la poblacin mundial sufre o ha sufrido dolor de cabeza en algn momento de su vida. Hay ms de ciento cincuenta tipos de cefaleas, con distintas causas, formas e intensidades, y algunos de ellos, como la migraa, pueden llegar a ser del todo incapacitantes en el da a da de una persona. Por ello, es importante conocerlos, identificarlos y darles la importancia que merecen. El doctor Jess Porta-Etessam, especialista en neurologa y patologas asociadas al sistema nervioso, nos acerca las claves para enfrentarnos a ellos y mejorar nuestra calidad de vida. Y nos ayuda, al fin, a arrojar algo de luz sobre un tema que afecta a tanta gente y sobre el que an planean tantas incgnitas. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Understand your headaches and discover how to treat them by following the advice of one of the Spain's leading neurologists. Historically, medical science has focused its efforts on serious and potentially fatal diseases. Other health problems, however, may seem relatively minor but can still derail the lives of those who suffer them. This is true of headaches, one of the most common disorders of the nervous system. In fact, close to half of the world population is estimated to have had a headache at some point. There are more than 150 types of headaches of differing causes, symptoms and intensity. Some of them, such as migraines, can be completely incapacitating. This is why it is so important to identify them, understand them and treat them with the seriousness they deserve. Dr. Jess Porta-Etessam, a neurologist specializing in pathologies associated with the nervous system, gives us the keys to manage headaches and improve our quality of life. In the process, he sheds much-needed light on a problem that affects so many people but about which little is known.
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