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Show Headaches Hit 15 Million but Many Can Be Avoided Fifteen million Americans suffer from recurring headaches but more than 90 percent of these occur in a setting of emotional stress and can be reduced or 'avoided by a change in living habits.. So reports Lin Root in a recent Reader's Digest article. "Avoid, as much as possible, needless, useless worry," is one of several medical1 suggestions for headache sufferers he reported. Thousands of sufferers have experienced relief once they recognize the headache as a "cease and desist" order for their way of life. ' ' Research by Dr. Harold G. Wolff, professor of medicine at Cornell University Medical College; Dr. Arnold P. Friedman, founder of the Headache Research Unit at New York's Monte-fiore Monte-fiore Hospital and others, has established that less than three out of 100 cases of headache are due to tumors, infections and structural anomalies of the eyes and air spaces in the head. All the rest are vascular or muscle-tension headaches. Worst of the torments in the headache realm is migraine, which the Greeks called heikrania half a head because the pain rages on one side only, usually radiating from the eye. Research has shown that migraine has a predelection for the educated and intelligent. Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, emeritus consultant con-sultant in medicine for the Mayo Clinic, refers to it as "something "some-thing like a Phi Beta Kappa key" in the world of headaches. He also describes migranous types as "usually perfectionists who want everything done just so and exactly on time." The tendency to migraine is inherited and often reinforced by an environment and insistence on inflexibly high standards. i 11 |
