Migraine and its symptoms

Migraine and its Symptoms.

Audio.
Listen to what these people have to say about migraine.http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/12/15/health/healthguide/TE_migraine.html?ref=health
(you can also listen to the first 3 in your CD)

Exercise.
Tell us what triggers their migraines and what it is like to live with it for them.
Skip Masland:
Vickie Martin:
William Car:
Aviva Goldfarb
Tracey Makowsky:
Terri Sinnott:

Vocabulary and Terminology.

Biofeedback is a technique that involves reducing the effects of pain and stress on your body by learning how your body reacts to pain and stress. Biofeedback does this through monitoring instruments that can detect and display internal bodily function. This can give people better control over body function indicators such as blood pressure, heart rate, temperature, muscle tension, and brain waves. Biofeedback is a type of complementary and alternative medicine known as mind-body therapy.

Biofeedback for migraines may be coupled with relaxation therapy. Relaxation therapy teaches a variety of relaxation strategies for reducing tension and stress throughout the body.

Beta-adrenergic Blocking Agents
AKA Beta-Blockers
Description

This group of medicines is commonly used as a Migraine preventive treatment, they are known as beta-adrenergic blocking agents, beta-blocking agents, or, more commonly, beta-blockers. Beta-blockers are primarily used in the treatment of high blood pressure (hypertension). Some beta-blockers are also used to relieve angina (chest pain) and in heart attack patients to help prevent additional heart attacks. Beta-blockers are also used to correct irregular heartbeat, as stated above, prevent Migraine, and treat tremors. They may also be used for other conditions as determined by your doctor.

Beta-blockers work by affecting the response to some nerve impulses in certain parts of the body. As a result, they decrease the heart's need for blood and oxygen by reducing its workload. They also help the heart to beat more regularly.

Idiomatic Expressions.

For the count. In boxing, a boxer would lose the fight if he can’t get back on his feet before the referee counts to 10.

Script.
Find the script at http://englishvillemexico.blogspot.com/2010/04/scripts-lesson-17.html .