Headache’ is a very common problem in both adults and children but unfortunately it still continues to stay neglected. Recurrent head pain interferes with normal functioning and can be quite incapacitating. Frequent headaches can impair family, social and sex life. Despite the significant disability and all the recent advances, headaches in medical practice continue to be underdiagnosed and inadequately treated. Headache is therefore a huge public health burden in terms of loss of productivity and the amount spent on ineffective treatment.

The understanding of various types of headaches has advanced greatly over the last two decades. Research has now established beyond doubt that headaches are a biological problem and there is nothing psychological about most headaches. Present attitudes are unfair to headache sufferers for they may deprive them of the treatment to relieve their pain. Beliefs about headache and attitudes toward headache needs to change. So ‘headaches’ can no longer be passed off saying “It’s All in your head!”