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Taking Control of Your Headaches
How to Get the Treatment You Need

Paul N. Duckro, PhD, William D. Richardson, MD , and Janet E. Marshall, RN
with Steven Cassabaum, PT, and Greg Marshall, PhD

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Book Summary: Headache Sufferers Can Get More Relief with Less Medication

This practical guide describes a complete treatment program that enables headache sufferers to get more relief with less medication use; reduce the frequency of headaches; and become active collaborators in their own multidisciplinary care. The authors explain in clear terms the wide range of medical, neuromuscular, psychosocial, and dietary variables that can affect headache activity. Ideal for client assignment, the book is useful in conjunction with professional treatment or in preparing clients for referral to other mental health or medical practitioners. Special features include helpful case studies, charts, questionnaires, and tips and exercises for clients.When medication alone proves inadequate with headache patients, prescribe Taking Control of Your Headaches. In accessible, jargon-free language, it describes a sound, multimodal program that can be effective in reducing the pain and frequency of persistent headaches while also lessening drug intake.

Useful in conjunction with professional treatment or in preparing clients for referral, this book explains in clear terms the wide range of medical, neuromuscular, psychological, social, and dietary factors that can affect headache activity. It enables clients to actively collaborate in their own treatment plan by providing:

• Step-by-step instructions to using the multimodal approach
• Detailed descriptions of the different treatments
• Guidance for coordinating multidisciplinary care
• Information for understanding and following through on referrals

Throughout the text, illustrated case studies, charts, and checklists make the information highly accessible and help enable the practitioner and client to tailor the program to meet the client's specific needs.

Taking Control of Your Headaches summarizes a sound and practical treatment regimen that combines well-studied methods of therapy with real attention to the individual needs of the headache patient. Filled with time-efficient home assignments that provide excellent ways to involve clients in their treatment, this book serves as a valuable tool for physicians, therapists, and other health care providers who treat headache patients.

Audience

• Headache sufferers
• Family members of headache sufferers
• Health care professionals who work with headache sufferers

Contents

Introduction
1. Get the Help You Need
2. Consider Your Options: The Multimodal Approach
3. Know Your Symptoms: Major Headache Groups
4. Causes and Triggers of Headaches: An Overview
5. Identify Your Risk Factors: Some Preliminary Self-Help Techniques
6. Use Medication Wisely
7. Relieve Muscle Tension: Physical Therapy
8. Reduce Internal Tension: Relaxation in the Control of Headaches
9. Minimize Psychosocial Stress: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
10. Special Categories of Headaches

Appendix I: Checklists for Self-Help

Appendix II: Controlling Headache Risk during Menstrual Periods

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