Inspiration and Free Stuff for National Headache Awareness Week

For all of you out there with headaches, this week is National Headache Awareness Week.

Here are some inspiring campaigns going on (and free stuff!) to celebrate everyone living with tension headaches, chronic headaches, migraines, and cluster headaches.

Wishing you a pain-free week!

American Academy of Neurology Foundation

The AANF has two websites to share for its “Buy a Brain” and BrainMatters campaigns:

https://www.TheBrainMatters.org/buyabrain
Buy a virtual brain online for as little as $5 through the American of Neurology Foundation in honor of a friend or family member. Your virtual brain will then float on the AAN Foundation’s wall of donations. Your donation will make a difference in the lives of people affected by a neurologic disorder because 100% of your gift helps fund vital research into tomorrow’s preventions, treatments, and cures for migraine, and hundreds of other neurologic conditions. You’ll also see Grey’s Anatomy recently picked the AAN Foundation as one of its favorite charities.

https://www.TheBrainMatters.org
TheBrainMatters.org is the American Academy of Neurology Foundation’s official website for patients and caregivers.  TheBrainMatters.org was re-launched in late April and features information on more than 250+ neurologic disorders, including migraine as well as some of the other chronic conditions listed on CureTogether’s website.

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National Headache Foundation

The NHF has these links to share for its Migraine Millions campaign and National Headache Awareness Week:

Since 1993, National Headache Awareness Week (NHAW), sponsored by the National Headache Foundation (NHF) aims to educate people about headache causes, impact and available resources. The theme for National Headache Awareness Week is Chart Your Course to Relief. The NHF is launching “Headache U:  It’s all about YOU,” a new patient education program. The first tool of the program features an online headache care tool called “Chart Your Course to Headache Relief: a personal headache care tool” and can be found on our Web site, www.headaches.org. The tool helps sufferers discover their personal headache patterns and the resources necessary to improve their headache care.

The NHF is also encouraging you to support the Migraine Million campaign. We are rallying one million of the nearly 30 million migraine sufferers in the United States to each donate $1 for migraine education and research. The NHF uses 82 cents of every dollar donated to support the programs and services that we provide to improve the lives of headache sufferers. One dollar at a time, we can improve headache care! To find out more, please visit www.headaches.org, call toll-free 1-888-NHF-5552, or visit the NHF on Facebook, Twitter or YouTube.

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Migraine Research Foundation

The MRF has a new initiative called For Our Children, to support pediatric migraine research. Definitely a great cause to support!

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And the Free Stuff!

Who doesn’t love free stuff? Here are some statistics we’ve gathered, all reported by CureTogether migraine members:

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Related Conditions

And the new Migraine Heroes book, first crowdsourced book on migraines. Tell your friends about CureTogether and ask Alexandra for a free copy!

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