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

Duckro PhD, Paul Nicholas; Richardson, William D.; Marshall, Janet E.; Cassabaum, Steven; Marshall, Greg; Duckro, Paul N.

9780898627879: Taking Control of Your Headaches: How to Get the Treatment You Need

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0898627877 ISBN 13: 9780898627879

Publisher: The Guilford Press, 1995

If you are frustrated by recurring headaches, relief is on the way. In Taking Control of Your Headaches, a team of headache experts describe ways to manage your headaches in a clear and effective program that makes you part of the solution. In step-by-step instructions, the book details a complete treatment plan that takes into account all the factors that can affect headaches, including diet, biology, stress, behavior, and muscle tension.

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From the Back Cover:

Patients with refractory headache and practitioners alike unquestionably will find this book to be a most valuable resource. (Headache)

About the Author:

Paul N. Duckro, Ph.D., has been Clinical Director of the Chronic Headache Program at St. Louis University School of Medicine since 1982. A Professor in the School of Medicine, his primary interest has been in developing effective ways of using behavioral and other non-pharmacological treatments in the treatment of headache. He sees these treatments as part of the routine care of difficult headaches, and has worked to make them accessible to patients as part of physician\n-\psychologist treatment teams without the stigma sometimes attached to the use of psychological treatment.

William Richardson, M.D., is the Medical Director of the Chronic Headache Program at St. Louis University School of Medicine. A Board certified Internist, his interests include evaluation of patients with headaches and correlation of physical findings and medical problems with the headache syndrome.

Janet E. Marshall is licensed as a Registered Nurse in the state of Missouri and is certified as a Biofeedback Therapist by the Biofeedback Certification Institute of America. She has worked in the fields of pain management and headache management since 1978.

Greg Marshall has published articles on various technical subjects and is a prize-winning poet. Currently, he is Chair of the English Department at St. Louis Community College at Meramec.

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