Beyond the Book: Background information when reading All In My Head

Beyond the Book

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At least 28 million Americans battle chronic headaches.

About 18% of women and 6% of men experience migraine.

Up to one-third of women between the ages of 25 and 55 have migraine.

4-5% of the population get Chronic Daily Headache (CDH) - defined as a headache at least 15 days/month lasting at least 4 hours per episode.

0.5% suffer from constant CDH, mainly women.

Chronic pain causes more disability than cancer and heart disease combined.

Chronic pain is the leading cause of disability in the United States.

About the author:
Paula Kamen is the author of Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution and Feminist Fatale. Her commentaries and satires have appeared in many newspapers and magazines, and in various anthologies. She lives in Chicago.

Three resources recommended by the author:

• About.com
• The American Chronic Pain Association
• The American Pain Foundation

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This "beyond the book article" relates to All In My Head. It originally ran in March 2005 and has been updated for the April 2006 paperback edition. Go to magazine.