Post-traumatic Headaches: A Form of Neuropathic Pain | E4

Dr. Ayla Wolf: 00:04 If people that have these persistent post traumatic headaches aren't responding to kind of migraine medications or migraine treatments, why is that? What makes these different? And they were saying that because this resembles neuropathic pain so closely, it's likely that there is this neuropathic pain component, which again, makes perfect sense when you realize that a concussion is causing all kinds of dysregulation and dysfunction within the brain and central nervous system that is, in a sense, affecting all of these specific areas of the brain that are associated with neuropathic pain and a loss of the inhibition of pain. Sophia Bouwens: 00:45 Welcome to the life after impact podcast where we do a deep dive into all things concussion and brain injury related. We talk about all of the different symptoms that can follow a brain injury, different testing methods, conventional and functional, different types of specialists out there and different therapies available. I'm Sophia balance, and I'm here with Dr Ayla Wolf, and we will be your guides to living your best life after impact. Dr. Ayla Wolf: 01:15 Welcome back, Sophia. Sophia Bouwens: 01:17 Well, thank y…