2 Module 5 Week 8 Case Study Analysis Introduction The patient presented to the Emergency Department (ED) with a complaint of a severe right-sided headache (HA) lasting 2-3 days with excruciating pain which has occurred several times over the past two months and is affecting her daily life, the patient reports having a sensitivity to light and reports incidences of nausea and vomiting. Based upon the patient's presentation, the practioner will most likely look for a definitive diagnosis of a migraine headache. Headaches without question are one of the most common ailments afflicting the world's population and migraines stand as the sixth leading common cause of disability on the planet as cited by the World Health Organization (WHO). Migraines are also the most disabling of all neurological disorders and has a huge financial burden on global economies (Goadsby et al., 2017). This analysis will review the neurological and musculoskeletal processes that would account for the patient's presentation with the symptoms in the case study and how these processes interact to affect the patient and lastly it will examine the racial/ethnic variables that impact the patient's functioning. Both the neurological and musculoskeletal pathophysiologic processes that would account for the patient presenting these symptoms A migraine is defined as “an episodic neurologic disorder whose marker is a headache lasting 4 to 72 hours”(McCance & Huether, 2019, p. 573). It is characterized by attacks of unilateral head pain, throbbing head pain and pain that worsens in intensity with activity or movement and is associated with one or more of the following features: photophobia, phonophobia, osmophobia, nausea, and vomiting (Ong & De Felice, 2017)
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