Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...modification works better with specific limited phobias?say, of dogs or birds?than with the generalized panic of agoraphobia. Says Dr. Claire Weekes of Sydney, Australia, a specialist in agoraphobia: "Agoraphobia is not a true phobia. It's one phase of an anxiety state." Weekes, author of Simple, Effective Treatment of Agoraphobia, has treated 1,200 agoraphobics in person and 4,000 more with records, tapes and letters. In her opinion, behaviorists are on the wrong track when they train agoraphobics to avoid panic. Says she: "Recovery lies in the attack itself and learning to cope with...
...there is new hope for the afflicted. While no sure cure yet exists for migraines, increased research into headaches of all kinds is finally yielding both new understanding and treatment of this worst...
...teens or early 20s and can recur for the remainder of the victim's life. Women seem about twice as vulnerable as men, yet a related headache called the cluster (because it strikes repeatedly over several hours) most often affects tall, hard-driving men. For years the standard treatment for chronic headaches was a combination of the drug ergotamine tartrate and caffeine (Cafergot), which acts to constrict the expanded blood vessels...
...brandy. Other doctors downgrade the importance of diet. Says Dr. Arthur H. Elkind, director of the headache clinic at New York's Montefiore Hospital: "Occasionally we tell patients to avoid certain foods, but counseling is always required to find out what the problem is and what the correct treatment should...
...hand by as much as 10° to 15°. As he explains in his recent book More than Two Aspirin (Follett; $8.95), higher temperatures mean an increased flow of blood there?and presumably a reduction elsewhere, including the head. Almost invariably, he reports, the technique stops headaches. Still another imaginative treatment has been introduced by Dr. Howard Kurland at Northwestern University (Quick Headache Relief Without Drugs; Morrow; $7.95). He applies strong pressure at four sets of points on the body (wrists, temples, hands and neck). The object of Kurland's "acupressure": to overload the nervous system's pain centers?in effect...