{"id":11503,"date":"2025-11-10T12:44:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T12:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/?page_id=11503"},"modified":"2026-01-07T09:37:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:37:21","slug":"headache-migraine","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/specialties\/neurosurgery\/headache-migraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Headache \/ migraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"11503\" class=\"elementor elementor-11503 elementor-2812\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3d25df47 bk_heroPill e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3d25df47\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2f862d89 e-flex 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     <span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Areas of treatment<\/span>\r\n                <span class=\"bk-menu-toggle-icon\">\r\n                    <svg width=\"12\" height=\"8\" viewBox=\"0 0 12 8\" fill=\"none\">\r\n                        <path d=\"M1 1L6 6L11 1\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"\/>\r\n                    <\/svg>\r\n                <\/span>\r\n            <\/span>\r\n        <\/button>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    \r\n    <div class=\"bk-menu-toggle-content\" id=\"bk-menu-toggle-7498\" style=\"display:none;\">\r\n        <div class=\"bk-menu-toggle-menu\"><ul class=\"bk-toggle-menu-list\"><li class=\"menu-item menu-item-8294\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/specialties\/neurosurgery\/brain-tumor\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beta_arrow.svg\" alt=\"\" class=\"bk-menu-item-icon\" \/><span>Brain Tumor<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"menu-item menu-item-11327\"><a 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migraine<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"menu-item menu-item-11314\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/specialties\/neurosurgery\/instablity-listhesis\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beta_arrow.svg\" alt=\"\" class=\"bk-menu-item-icon\" \/><span>Instability \/ listhesis<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"menu-item menu-item-11204\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/specialties\/neurosurgery\/microsurgery\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beta_arrow.svg\" alt=\"\" class=\"bk-menu-item-icon\" \/><span>Microsurgery<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"menu-item menu-item-11365\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/specialties\/neurosurgery\/mortons-neuroma-mortons-metatarsalgia\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beta_arrow.svg\" alt=\"\" class=\"bk-menu-item-icon\" \/><span>Morton&#039;s neuroma \/ Morton&#039;s metatarsalgia<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"menu-item 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e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"13141de5\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-88f64d9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"88f64d9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1>Headache \/ migraine<\/h1><div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p>Headache is common, but its causes can be very different. Often it requires an thorough interdisciplinary examination by, for example, internists, neurologists, ENT specialists, orthopedics and ophtalmologists.<\/p><p>The\u00a0<strong>acute headache<\/strong>\u00a0has to be differentiated from the chronic and persistent, and the intermittend, recurring types of headache.<\/p><p>The subarachnoidal hemorrhage (SAH) is an important cause of the acute, newly occuring headache. SAH is an intracranial (inside the skull) bleeding, which is caused by a vessel malformation, a so-called\u00a0<a title=\"Aneurysm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/specialties\/neurosurgery\/headache-migraine\/\">aneurysm<\/a>. The bleeding (or the aneurysm, respectively) has to be treated very quickly since it is a life-threatening disease.<\/p><p>Other causes of a newly occuring headache can be paranasal inflammations, or eye diseases accompanied by changes of the visual system.<\/p><p>Cerebral hemorrhage caused by a hypertensive crisis (increase of blood pressure above preexisting values) also lead to severe headache. But it is accompanied by neurological deficits (paralyzations, speech disorders, vision deficiency).<\/p><p>Even a cerebral infarction resulting from ischemia (restriction in blood supply) can make its presence felt simply by severe acute headache.<\/p><p>Causes of\u00a0<strong>intermittent headache<\/strong>\u00a0are migraine, different forms of face ache (prosopalgia), or neuralgia (for instance,\u00a0<a title=\"Neuralgia \/ trigeminal neuralgia\" href=\"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/specialties\/neurosurgery\/neuralgia-trigeminal-neuralgia\/\">trigeminal neuralgia<\/a>), or mechanical blockade of cervical spine (e.g., first cervical vertebra).<\/p><p><strong>Chronic persistent headache<\/strong>\u00a0is a diagnostic challenge and can have many causes, which has to be analyzed in each individual case. Causes are arterial hypertension (blood pressure change above normal levels), chronic paranasal inflammation and many more. Even psychological issues matter in case of chronic headache.<\/p><p>All types of headache can also be engendered by a tumor or intracranial space-occupying lesions. A space-occupying lesion can emerge if a tissue expands. Therefore, an exhaustive examination including detailed anamnesis is very important ensued by indicated corresponding examinations (blood sample analysis,\u00a0<a title=\"Electrophysiology neurology and epileptology\" href=\"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/specialties\/beta-international-epilepsy-centre\/electrophysiology\/\">EEG<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"CT\" href=\"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/specialties\/neuroradiology-and-pediatric-neuroradiology\/ct\/\">CT<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"MRI\" href=\"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/specialties\/neuroradiology-and-pediatric-neuroradiology\/mri\/\">MRI<\/a>, cerebrospinal puncture \/ spinal tap, etc.).<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Headache is common, but its causes can be very different. Often it requires an thorough interdisciplinary examination by, for example, internists, neurologists, ENT specialists, orthopedics and ophtalmologists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2979,"parent":7322,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"fachrichtung":[80,156],"class_list":["post-11503","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","fachrichtung-neurologie","fachrichtung-neurosurgery"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11503"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14373,"href":"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11503\/revisions\/14373"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"fachrichtung","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fachrichtung?post=11503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}