by Dr Jim Bartley

Paperback, 229pages, 2007, new with sale strip in edge

Healing Headaches discusses the treatment of common headache and facial pain conditions, such as migraine and tension headache. The World Health Organisation listed migraine as one of the top four disabling medical conditions with levels of pain, distress and disability comparable to heart disease, cancer or low back pain. Severe headaches often need a multi facted approach to heal them - this includes advice on sleep, relaxation, nutrition and pain management. Contents include explanations of the processing of pain, emotions and pain, migraine, tension headache, the breathing connection, the dental department, the neck, posttraumatic headache and sinusitis pain. It also discusses treatments: breathing, sleep, exercise, diet, food triggers and allergies, herbs and supplements, posture, massage, medication, using the mind, complementary therapies and evolving therapies. Jim became interested in facial pain when he realised that many of the patients that he was seeing with sinusitis were actually suffering from tension headache.