Headaches affect the quality of our daily lives. They can be occasional, recurrent or persistent (chronic) in nature. Tension headaches and migraine are the commonest types of headaches. Simple causes like allergies, food, the menstrual cycle,the season, emotions and dental disorders can trigger headaches. Rarely, but importantly, headaches may signal the presence of underlying serious problems such as brain tumours and malformations in the blood vessels of the brain.

Most headaches will resolve themselves with simple remedies, but, if a headache is recurrent or chronic, it deserves to be handled more carefully. The Headache Evaluation Clinic at Sundaram Medical Foundation, is a single-stop, comprehensive, multi-speciality facility that aims to provide complete solutions to patients with problematic headaches. A patient who registers for the package will receive a carefully designed set of evaluations by competent specialists, a panel of laboratory tests and a set of investigations that are targeted at locating the likely cause. All of this within a 24 hour period, as opposed to the week or more that such an evaluation may take under normal circumstances where patients have to contact each of these specialists and obtain the required tests and studies.

As a note of caution it must be mentioned that a small group of patients may not find relief despite the efforts made at the clinic.

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Although more than 90% of headaches are due to simple, easily treated causes, a few may be a warning sign of some serious, underlying problem that needs prompt and effective treatment. Prompt medical advice should be obtained when a headache has any of the underlying characteristics.