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The document discusses different types of headaches, their causes and treatment. It distinguishes between tension headaches, caused by tight neck and shoulder muscles, and migraines, which involve severe one-sided throbbing pain and sensitivity to light and sound. Tension headaches are usually brief but can last days, while migraines may cause nausea and last 8-24 hours. Factors like poor posture, certain foods, hormones, and stress can trigger headaches. Keeping a headache diary can help doctors determine the underlying cause and best treatment.

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Note Making

The document discusses different types of headaches, their causes and treatment. It distinguishes between tension headaches, caused by tight neck and shoulder muscles, and migraines, which involve severe one-sided throbbing pain and sensitivity to light and sound. Tension headaches are usually brief but can last days, while migraines may cause nausea and last 8-24 hours. Factors like poor posture, certain foods, hormones, and stress can trigger headaches. Keeping a headache diary can help doctors determine the underlying cause and best treatment.

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Note-taking and Note-making

Note-taking is a passive process which is done at lectures whereas note-making is more active and focused activity where you
assimilate all information and make sense of it for yourself.
Note-taking - It allows you to have a written record of the lecture which may not be in your textbook. It also ensures that you
become an active and involved listener and learner
How to make notes
 Heading can recognise the main ideas
– Subheadings – Points
Don’t try to write every word – select the major points and important information
Don’t write complete sentences, streamline with abbreviations and symbols, organise

when note-making in lectures:


 you can’t pause the lecturer; rewind; then replay; to go over something you haven’t understood
if you are reminded of some information you want to look up, you have to make a note and remember to follow it up later
 You can’t slow down the lecturer if you fall behind with your note-making
while note-making from reading:
 you can easily stop and read something again if you need to
Understand your Learning Style
Visual Learning –
 The Visual Learners gain better with the pictures and any visual presentation and at the time of recalling they create a picture
in their minds and thus revise everything.
 Using Different Colored Pens and Underlining Methods to highlight any sentence/topic.
 Understanding things with the help of visual presentation of information like -pictures, diagrams, tables, graphs, maps and
charts.
Auditory Learning
 Learning through listening [Attend Lectures and Group Studies]
 Listening Audible Notes [Record Lectures, Group Discussions or Self Prepare Self Audio Notes]
 Learning through Read out loud Method
Read/Write Learning - Learning through reading and re-reading
Writing and Re-writing notes
Kinaesthetic Learning
 learning through Physical Activity
 Practicing with Real Life Example like Workshops or Practical Labs
 Learning through Senses – Sight, Touch, Taste, Smell and Hearing etc.
Accelerated Learner
Overachiever Learner - a good rote learner meaning your ability to memorize is strong. You get good grades but are typically a
weak test taker - fail to understand
Sound Learner - does well in school - you study hard but you also know when enough is enough. You are motivated, serious about
where and what you want to study and you regularly get solid grades. - Sound learners go the extra mile
Unmotivated Learner - genuinely wants to do well but regularly feels uninterested and/or unchallenged by the whole learning process

Question Why You Are Taking Notes


Don’t Record Every Single Comment
Link your Notes to Your Syllabus - Link your Notes to Your Syllabus - understand where each topic fits in the overall picture -
include sources when building your notes
Review Your Notes Regularly - Creating your notes is a great start but to learn the information, you’ll need to go back and review the
material several more times - Schedule an alert to revisit your notes on a weekly or monthly basis to trigger new ideas and find
inspiration - expanding them by linking to useful articles and websites.

Include Visuals such as Mind Maps - Note making is more than text. Using visuals such as graphs, diagrams, pictures and mind
maps can help you comprehend information easier and recall pieces of the puzzle when you need to.
Don’t Write Notes Mindlessly
NOTE – MAKING
Almost all of us have suffered from a headache at some time or the other. For some a headache is a constant companion
and life is a painful hell of wasted time.

The most important step to cope with headaches is to identify the type of headache one is suffering from. In tension
headaches (two hand headache), a feeling of a tight band around the head exits along with the pain in the neck and
shoulders. It usually follows activities such as long stretches driving, typing or sitting on the desks. They are usually short
lived but can also last for days or weeks.

A headache is usually caused due to the spinal misalignment of the head, due to the posture. Sleeping on the stomach
with the head turn to one side and bending over positions for a long time make it worse.

In migraine headaches, the pains usually on one side of the head may be accompanied by nausea, vomiting irritability
and bright spots of flashes of light. This headache is meant worse by activities especially bending. The throbbing pain in
the head worsens by noise and light. Certain triggers for migraines may be chocolate, caffeine, smoking or MSU in certain
food items. The pain may last eight to twenty four hours and there may be a hangover for two or three days. Migraines
are often produced by an ‘aura’------changes in sight and sensation. There is usually a family migraine.

In a headache, pain originates from the brain but from the irritated nerves of muscles, blood vessels and bones. These
head pain signals to the brain which judges the degree of distress and relays it at appropriate sites. The pain sometimes
may be referred to sights other than the problem areas. This is known as referred by pain and occurs due to sensation
overload. Thus, though, most headache states at the base of the skull referred pain as felt typically behind the eyes.

Factors causing headache are understood but it is known that a shift in the level of body hormones chemicals, certain
foods and drinks and environmental stress can trigger them.

If the headache troubles you often, visit the doctor, who will take a full health history relating to diet, life stresses, the type
of headache, trigging factors and relief measures. You may be asked to keep a ‘headache diary’ which tells you to list –
the time headache started and when it ended, emotional environmental and food and drinking factors which may contribute
to it. The type and severity of pain and the medications used which provide much relief are also to be listed.
This helps the doctor in determining the exact cause and type of headache and the remedy thereof.
Notes on the contents of the passage;

A. Identification:-
(i) tension headache, or
(ii) migraine headache

B. Symptoms:-
(i) Tension headaches
(a) feeling tight band around head
(b) pain in neck and shoulders
(ii) Migraine headaches
(a) pain on one side of the head
(b) vomiting and irritability
(c) bright sport of flashes of light
C. Causes:-
(i) Tension headaches
(a) long stretches of driving
(b) long hours of typing or sitting on the desk
(ii) Migraine headache.
(a) Chocolate, coffee, smoking.
(b) MSU is certain food items
D. Treatment :-
(i) Self –care techniques for shorter period.
(ii) Doctor advice for permanent treatments.
Abbreviations used
1.hsptl – hospital.
2. blding – building
3. don. – donations
4.ayur. – ayurvedic

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