Posted in: JuneJune 7-13 is national headache awareness weekNew online tool helps people with headaches take control, get relief.

Each year the National Headache Foundation (NHF) sponsors National Headache Awareness Week to educate people about headache causes, impact and help. This year during the week of June 7-13, the NHF is launching "Headache U: It’s all about YOU," the first headache education program of its kind designed to help people with headaches take important steps toward getting relief. The program is on the NHF website at www.headaches.org.

Developed under the guidance of an advisory panel of both physicians who specialize in headache care and people with headaches, Headache U will contain a series of patient education resources and tools. The first tool introduced is “Chart Your Course to Headache Relief: a personal headache care tool,” which asks people with headaches questions about their experiences, and based upon the information given, guides them toward resources that are relevant to their needs.

Each year, 90% of all men and 95% of all women have at least one headache¹ . Despite many people having frequent and sometimes severe headaches that affect their family, social and work life, most do not actively seek relief from their condition². Experts say the complacency is puzzling because relief is available, but begins with an understanding that headaches are very personal. Four simple strategies can get sufferers on the right course to relief:

• Realize that headaches matter, and take your headaches seriously;
• Learn all you can – be a student of your own headaches;
• Pay more attention to your personal headache patterns – track your headaches, and try to find clues to triggers and solutions;
• Take control and get the help and care you deserve: many resources are available.

"No one has the same combination of headache pain, frequency, impairment or triggers," says Roger Cady, M.D., vice president of the NHF board of directors, and director of the Headache Care Center in Springfield, MO. "So, the approach to headache care needs to be as personal as the headaches. The sufferer needs to get involved in charting a course to relief based upon an understanding of their own personal headache patterns, and getting connected with helpful, sometimes life-changing resources."

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