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Unit 5: The Nervous System

Listening Activity: Headache

Listen to the recording of a patient describing their headache; then answer the questions below by typing your answers into the boxes. Once you finished, go back and move your mouse of the "check your answer" and compare your answer with the one provided. Then relisten to the text for extra practice.

1. When did the patient's headaches start? Check your answer.

2. The headaches generally start in the .  Check your answer.

3. The patient describes the pain as and .  Check your answer.

4. The headaches last from to .  Check your answer.

5. The patient never feels nauseous (True or False).   Check your answer.

6. The patient has tried taking the over-the-counter medicine called .  Check your answer.

7. The medicine helped quite a bit (True or False).   Check your answer.

8. The only thing that seems to help the pain is if the patient .  Check your answer.

9. The patient reports that and make the headaches worse.  Check your answer.

10. When the headaches are bad, the patient reports feeling the pain and .  Check your answer.

11. The headache come on over a period of .  Check your answer.

12. On a scale of from 1 to 10, the patients describes the headaches as a .  Check your answer.