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Chronic headaches makes the individuals who suffer from miserable. Chronic headaches include tension-type headaches, which affect nearly 78% of US adults, and migraines, which affect 16% of US Adults and 11% of US children. Headache disorders are a major contributing factor to disability and lost-work time world-wide. Altogether, diagnosis and treatment of headaches make up 20% of all outpatient visits to neurologists. The direct financial burden of caring for migraine headache patients alone In the U.S. is 2.5 billion per year.

What Nurses Know…Headache is written by someone who’s experienced having headaches all of her life. Some risk factors are not easily modifiable—family history of migraine, for example. But others, such as stress, diet, and the overuse of medications, are much more easily modified, through physician guidance, patient education, and support. Other preventive strategies include following specialized diets and using mind-body techniques such as deep relaxation, visualization, and biofeedback to help patients gain control over their headaches. What Nurses Know…Headache discusses headaches in terms of risk symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and risk factors.

What Nurses Know…Headache Includes:
Headache basics
Information on how to build your healthcare team
Discusses over a dozen headache types based the American Headache Society classification
Headache care, including coping measures, support strategies, and future treatments on the horizon
A comprehensive list of proven headache-prevention diets
An in-depth glossary enabling the reader to understand “the language of headaches”