In a countless number of movies and novels set in the British
Regency and Victorian Era women are plagued by headaches;
oftentimes as a way to show them as fragile, or as a joke. It is
not a trope used with male characters, but if it were would they
be taken seriously? Probably not. What if it was all viewed from
a different angle and headaches were considered as something
that legitimately affected their well-being? Maybe they were
getting out of a carriage earlier in the week and bumped their
head on the door frame causing a very mild head injury. What if
in present day your head bumped against the driver’s side window
in a small accident with no other injury? Could that genuinely
affect anyone’s overall health? A new study by Dr. Sylvia Lucas,
coming out of the American Headache Society‘s Annual Meeting,
states that those who experience milder head injuries tend to
have more post-traumatic headaches as time progresses than those
with severe injuries. Out of the 598 participants in the study
“about 70% [wer