Tap yourself on the head: the whole truth about migraines and other headaches

My mother has a headache, my neighbor has a headache, my colleagues at work have headaches too. And I have a headache, what's so strange about that?

Many have come to terms with the fact that headaches are a part of... their lives. They do not perceive it as a disease that can and should be treated.

One of the tasks of this book is to explain that if your head hurts, it is not normal, it is some kind of disease (fortunately, in most cases not dangerous). And that one should not endure this pain by taking painkillers every other day. You can help yourself and significantly improve your quality of life in other ways.

In his book, Kirill Skorobogatykh — a neurologist, candidate of medical sciences, co-founder, and head of the University Headache Clinic — explains in simple terms what types of headaches there are and how they occur. What hurts there? After all, "the head is a bone, and a bone cannot hurt," as we know. Why is it that only migraines are widely known, and not other types of headaches? What kind of disease is it and can it be cured?

Another task is to show how a doctor thinks and reasons when a patient comes to him with complaints of a headache. How does he unravel the history of the patient’s life and illness? How does the doctor sift through hundreds of diagnoses that need to be ruled out to make the correct one? Finally, how does he decide on additional research or that it is not needed.