Organization for Understanding Cluster Headaches
Encyclopedia
The Organization for Understanding Cluster Headaches (O.U.C.H.) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that assists cluster headache
sufferers and their families by providing information and emotional support. O.U.C.H. also supports and participates in research and communicates with the medical and pharmaceutical communities with the goal of improving diagnosis and treatment of cluster headaches.
The UK equivalent, Organisation for the Understanding of Cluster Headache or OUCH (UK), is a registered charity.
Cluster headache
Cluster headache, nicknamed "suicide headache", is a neurological disease that involves, as its most prominent feature, an immense degree of pain in the head. Cluster headaches occur periodically: spontaneous remissions interrupt active periods of pain. The cause of the disease is currently unknown...
sufferers and their families by providing information and emotional support. O.U.C.H. also supports and participates in research and communicates with the medical and pharmaceutical communities with the goal of improving diagnosis and treatment of cluster headaches.
The UK equivalent, Organisation for the Understanding of Cluster Headache or OUCH (UK), is a registered charity.
External links
- O.U.C.H. U.S.
- OUCH(UK)
- "Pain of the brain storm" - Times Online
- "'I have two headaches every day'" - BBC News
- "What makes things worse is being told we have a migraine, sinusitis or just a low pain threshold" - Wales Online
- "Brothers’ bonus" - The Wisbech Standard
- "DOCS ARE LETTING US DOWN; Headache charity's claim" - Daily Record