MAT 1300 Lecture 3: Topic 3 - Headaches Notes

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Mathematics
• Course: MAT 1300
• Professor: Termeh Kousha

Document Summary

Opened a hole into the skull to relieve the pressure. There was maybe a 30% chance of surviving and the hole would be harmful and not bene cial. There are modern practitioners of trepanation - hole in the head movement , which believes that by cutting a hole in your head you will experience health bene ts. The brain: neurons in the brain are not capable of feeling pain thus brain surgery can be performed with a local anesthetic just in the skull, pain in the head comes from the thin tissue surrounding the skull. Understanding headaches: there are 12 types of headaches, and 60 subtypes; these can be grouped into two classes, muscular: muscle band around the skull contracts and squishes the tissue. You will have to relax the muscles in order to get rid of the headache. You can treat them with acetaminophen, which increases one"s pain threshold (asa,