About Headaches

It is estimated that over 45 million people in the United States suffer from acute or chronic headaches,[1] with headaches accounting for one emergency room visit every 10 seconds. 18% of women and 8% of men between the ages of 18 and 55 suffer from what is technically defined as a migraine by the medical community. It is believed if those criteria are slightly relaxed, the number of individuals suffering from debilitating headaches more than doubles. Headaches are the number two cause of disability in the United States, and headaches are one of the top causes for the loss of workplace productivity. Because the medical community has not yet fully embraced “headache” as a medical condition, it is believed that many headache sufferers remain undiagnosed.

45 million people in the USA have headaches

Many Triggers, Lifestyle Issues

Headaches and migraines are a disorder of the brain, with numerous potential factors affecting the condition. There are many triggers for headaches, and lifestyle issues that contribute as well. Multiple aspects of headache conditions often need to be addressed in order to gain control over chronic headache pain.


1. See migraineinformation.org for more information on this statistic.