Your Health
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is committed to patient education. The "Your Health" section has been developed to help you easily find information to build your understanding of health topics, conditions, procedures, and more.
Monthly Topic: Headaches
For many people, a headache is an infrequent annoyance that disappears after swallowing a few tablets. But for chronic headache sufferers, the effects can be far worse.
Headaches come in a number of varieties – migraine headaches, cluster headaches, rebound headaches, organic headaches, tension headaches, sinus headaches -- but regardless of the type, it can be debilitating and rob you of quality of life. They can plague young children, even babies, and headaches can stop the strongest and bravest in their tracks.
Today, despite the toll headaches still take on millions of people around the world, enormous progress has been made in treating them. New medications, combined with non-drug therapies, are preventing, stopping or managing some of the toughest headaches around.
Don’t let a lack of knowledge fuel your headache pain anxiety. Educating yourself is the first step in the process to getting the treatment you need.
Learn all about headaches:
- Learn more in this month's "Health Notes" section: Halting Headaches
- Find out how much you know about migraines by taking our migraine quiz.
- Learn about headache diagnosis and treatments provided by BIDMC's Arnold Pain Management Center.
