National Headache Awareness Week

In the workplace, stress can easily trigger a headache or migraine. Approximately 78 percent of adults experience what’s called a tension-type headache at some point in their lives. Meanwhile, migraines affect only 13 percent of the American population, with one in every four U.S. households containing a migraine sufferer.

Regardless, when the intrusive brain pain gets to be unbearable, it can certainly interrupt one’s train of thought and ability to function on the job. To sympathize with your employees’ grief, celebrate National Headache Awareness Week 2008.

For 38 years, the National Headache Foundation has made many technological and medical advances in the way of identifying and treating headache pain. During the first week of June, National Headache Awareness Week aims to educate the public on the cause and prevention of headaches. To partake in headache awareness, the company can distribute customized pill boxes to ensure that all employees have treatment readily available.

The common tension-type headache is usually set off by temporary stress, anxiety, fatigue or anger. To help your staff withdraw from the given source of stress, hand out promotional stress balls. The release of tension will allow your employees to enjoy a moment of relaxation in their hectic day and realize that you care about their well-being.

Additionally, spread awareness throughout the office with desktop reminders to breathe deeply and take a break. A creative way to accomplish this feat would be to utilize a headache-themed gift, like a pill shaped adhesive note dispenser. Surely, this gift will display appreciable concern for your employees’ health.