Rarely Taxable divers More Headaches

Although the water pressure can cause headaches, professional divers found more rarely experienced headaches compared to healthy individuals in general.

High water pressure puts a person in jeopardy when diving. Error when it goes up or down by incorrectly can cause injury to vital organs due to air pressure in the body go up and down. Improper diving techniques may also lead to the formation of gas bubbles in the bloodstream.



Divers are also known to have certain structural changes in the brain and has a small clots in blood vessels of the brain caused by physical stress is experienced when diving.

To determine whether these effects can cause headaches, Dr. Roberto Di Fabio and his team recruited 201 men who worked as a diver for rescue and firefighting agencies of Italy and a control group who had never dived.

Both groups underwent neurological examination and observed the details of the amount of headache and migraine for one year.

During the study, 22% of the control group experienced headaches, whereas only 16% of professional divers. In addition, divers who get headaches number of headache attacks per month less than the control group.

For migraine, the migraine sufferers are equally low in both groups, namely 4.5% in the group of divers and 8% in the control group. Tension headaches result a little more, which is 10% in the divers, and 13.5% in the control group.

The findings of this study is limited by small sample size, but Dr. In Fabio thinks the results will help determine how to dive can affect professional divers.

He speculated that the overall health of divers could be one reason why divers are less prone to headaches or diving activity itself is what might provide protection.

"Exercise is useful to make the brain less sensitive to stress and avoid stimuli that can trigger a migraine. Therefore, diving and other aerobic exercise can help reduce the number of migraine attacks," said Dr.. In Fabio seeprti Health24.com reported on Tuesday (10/25/2011).

"Divers work in a pressure environment and have a high risk of impaired brain and blood vessels, conditions that contribute to common causes of headaches. A longitudinal study could reveal if the dive can act as protective factors of the occurrence of headaches," concluded Dr. In Fabio.