The Headache Files

The Headache Files: True Tales and Real Relief reflects Dr. Werner J. Becker’s decades in headache medicine, where evolving science met the lived reality of pain. Dr. Becker, one of Canada’s most eminent specialists, shares insights from his decades of practice, revealing the causes, treatments, and human stories behind headaches and migraine. Through patient stories and clinical insight, he explores migraine and hormonal headache, cluster and thunderclap headache, spinal fluid leak, post-traumatic headache, and headache from environmental causes. Part memoir, part medical history, he shows why careful listening matters, and how understanding can lead to real relief.