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What Nurses Know...Headache E-Book
Headaches are one of the most common medical complaints. Nearly everyone gets a one at some point in their lives and over 45 million Americans suffer with chronic headaches each year. 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 visits to neurologists. Headaches affect people of all ages, often throughout life.
What Nurses Know...Headaches is written by a nurse who has experienced having headaches all of her life. Some risk factors, like genetics, cannot be changed. But other "modifiable" risk factors can be altered by making lifestyle changes that reduce stress, avoiding dietary headache triggers, and refraining from the overuse of medications. Educating and motivating patients plays a key role in preventing headaches and reducing headache frequency. Other preventive strategies include using complementary and alternative therapies and practicing mind-body techniques such as deep relaxation, visualization, and biofeedback to help people gain control over headaches.
What Nurses Know...Headaches
What Nurses Know...Headaches is written by a nurse who has experienced having headaches all of her life. Some risk factors, like genetics, cannot be changed. But other "modifiable" risk factors can be altered by making lifestyle changes that reduce stress, avoiding dietary headache triggers, and refraining from the overuse of medications. Educating and motivating patients plays a key role in preventing headaches and reducing headache frequency. Other preventive strategies include using complementary and alternative therapies and practicing mind-body techniques such as deep relaxation, visualization, and biofeedback to help people gain control over headaches.
What Nurses Know...Headaches
- GenresHealth
80 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2012
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March 4, 2025
Clear and informative headache overview and advice from a nurse, those patient-education advocates.
February 18, 2013
As a practicing nurse for over 18 years, author Wendy Cohan uses her training, professional observations and personal experience to describe symptoms, diagnosis, and pharmaceutical, surgical and alternative treatments for headaches.
The book is for readers that suffer from tension, migraine, chronic and other types of debilitating headache pain. Emphasis is placed on discovering headache triggers, prevention, minimizing pain, treatment of headaches, and when to seek professional help.
A glossary, resource list, an extensive bibliography organized by chapter topic, and index is included. The “weekly headache diary”, provided in the appendix as a template in which to record contributing factors, pain scale, symptoms, medication taken, and etc., to isolate triggers.
The book is for readers that suffer from tension, migraine, chronic and other types of debilitating headache pain. Emphasis is placed on discovering headache triggers, prevention, minimizing pain, treatment of headaches, and when to seek professional help.
A glossary, resource list, an extensive bibliography organized by chapter topic, and index is included. The “weekly headache diary”, provided in the appendix as a template in which to record contributing factors, pain scale, symptoms, medication taken, and etc., to isolate triggers.
February 25, 2014
Having dealt with daily headaches for several years, I was hoping this book would provide some insight, which it did. There are many seemingly common sense suggestions for preventing and dealing with headaches. The "What Nurses Know" tips in each chapter were very helpful. After having seen at least a dozen doctors, and having multiple surgeries to alleviate my headaches, there were still suggestions and guidelines in this very readable book that I have not heard or read before. I would recommend it to anyone suffering from headaches, or wishing to help a loved one who has not yet found relief.
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