Registration and course materials
The aim of the eight-week training program is to effectively treat headaches before they become chronic and to empower students to become experts in managing their own headaches. The program fosters the children's ability to help themselves. At the same time, in cooperation with the statewide treatment network, professional medical diagnosis, consultation, and treatment are provided.
The course program is based on the experiences of a two-year study conducted by Techniker Krankenkasse together with the Universities of Göttingen and Düsseldorf.
The study results clearly show that many affected children can be helped: Around 60 percent of the participants, who before the course suffered from headaches frequently throughout the week, experienced a significant improvement in their condition. Medication use also decreased by about 40 percent.
Training overview
- Week: The Headache Expert – Information about pain
- Week: The Relaxation Boss – Learning a relaxation exercise
- Week: The Stress Manager – Identifying Headache Triggers
- Week: The Thought Specialist – Pessimism and Clairvoyance
- Week: The Attention Checker – Attention and Headaches
- Week: The I'm OK Master – Confident interaction with friends and family
- Week: The Problem Fighter – Problem Solving
- Week: The headache expert – review of what has been learned and future planning
- Week: Final meeting – child – parents – therapist
You can find information about where courses are offered here. You can also contact the doctors of the coordinated headache treatment network. The network's organizational hotline can be reached at +49 431 20099-400 or by email at iv-netz@schmerzklinik.de.
Participation requires a medical certificate stating that the child has been suffering from tension headaches or migraines for more than 6 months.
TK provides each participant with the course materials and covers the treatment costs for the children and adolescents insured with it as part of the cost reimbursement.