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What Nurses Know…Headache
Author(s): Wendy Cohan (Author)
- Publisher: Demos Medical Publishing
- Publication Date: 30 Aug. 2012
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 220 pages
- ISBN-10: 1936303299
- ISBN-13: 9781936303298
Book Description
Chronic headaches make the lives of the individuals who suffer from them miserable. Chronic headaches include tension-type headaches, which affect nearly 78 per cent of US adults, and migraines, which affect 16 per cent of US Adults and 11 per cent of US children. Headache disorders are a major contributing factor to disability and lost-work time worldwide. Altogether, diagnosis and treatment of headaches make up 20 per cent 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; discussion of over a dozen headache types based the American Headache Society classification; headache care basics, including coping measures, support strategies, and future treatments on the horizon; a comprehensive list of proven headache-prevention diets; and, an in-depth glossary enabling the reader to understand “”the language of headaches””.
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About the Author
Wendy Cohan is a nurse, health educator and writer living in Portland, OR.
