Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 6, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press october 1986 pages 916 to earner As focus in on baby bashful belly dancers Puzzle City per by Sandy Rovner the Washington Post when the head All the members partake of the pains Don quix ote to Sancho Panza in Don quix ote by Miguel de circa says psychologist Barry Jay is the Kirshner is a headache therapist in but it was his own now under that related so Well to Cervantes Obser even the mild ones made me almost although they seem to be localized in the they affect the whole but As bad As headaches make you says National institutes of health neurologist Elyse sing people with headaches tend to go to work anyway As opposed to people with Low Back for sex who generally Are unable to get out of Ive seen people with terrible pain every Day out there making a she subsisting on and doing pretty Well with what Treyve people May feel forced to per form despite throbbing temples be a broken leg or Runny nose a pounding head cant be its hard to substantiate a Kirshner lost workdays some do succumb to the since an estimated 125 million workdays Are lost each year in the United states because of that translates into More than billion in annual Cost to the Kirshner and More than billion spent on headache this includes most of the 30 Mil lion pounds of aspirin consumed in the United states each an estimated 80 million or 30 to 40 per cent of the get with about half seeking professional for the most headaches Are not nor do except on rare signal that anything serious is going on in the this is one reason this most com Mon affliction has been woefully neglected by medical establish ments throughout the Seymour director of a renowned headache clinic in quotes the 18thcentury British physician John who told the Royal College of physicians there is a disease though it occurs very has not yet obtained a place in the system Atic it is commonly to be met with in practice and is described by those who Are affected with and who Are not few in under the compound title of sick Hotdog headache Diamond has done As much As anyone in the world to systematically categorize and find causes and treatments for All manner of headache from ice Cream and Hotdog headaches to abdominal he loves to talk about the headache through beginning with the ancient who believed it a form of headache reme Dies Are described in the the jewish Book of and Hippo crates described a classical i Aura and in 400 Diamond cites this talmudic treatment for migraines in his re cent advice from the Dia mond headache the remedy prescribed was the Slaughter of a White cock with a White Luz a piece of Money Over that Side of the patient which is painful it was cautioned that one must be careful with the blood the pain the medical establishment has ignored in order not to Blind the patients the slaughtered cock was then Hung on the door and the patient rubbed his head against the Bird upon entering and leaving the the so called head ache is caused by the nitrites in the which can trigger headaches in some susceptible ice Cream headaches occur in some people when any cold substance hits the Back of the they last Only a few painful known for his willingness to try and sometimes one of the earliest mainstream physicians to see the potential in biofeedback As a tool i controlling he Hast done a study yet on the White cock and the but he did recently test a remedy suggested by Fothergill and countless old wives the use of he and his colleagues took 90 patients with three different kinds of headaches 30 migraine a 30 Cluster headache patients and 30 with so called mixed head each patient placed cold packs Over the painful the results 71 per cent of the patients and 80 per cent of the migraine patients said they had favourable results and would use cold packs in the like Many headache specialists Divide headaches into three Broad categories d caused by an Abnor Mal activity of the cerebral a with pain usually resulting from their they account for about half of the patients seen by headache common kinds of vascular head aches include migraines and club Ter which come in club a Day perhaps for a then none for most migraine victims Are and migraines often Are related to menstrual cycles and most Cluster victims Are victims often say they feel As if a re hot poker were being thrust through the it is probably the most painful of All but muscle tension Byi contraction of the Muscles of the shoulders or these May be caused by poor posture or trauma for in whiplash they account for the vast majority of headache victims and for about 90 per cent of the headache problems seen by general practitioners victims often describe the with an Aura a visual disturbance such As dancing or the feeling of looking through a broken migraines tend to throb on one Side of the head or the other the comes from the greek Hemi cranial for half a there Are various treatments for the various kinds of virtually nothing works but there Are some genuine advances in the treatment of head with and without these Range from relaxation and stress control to exercise and diet to so called counter irritant tech like pressing so called trigger Points on the Many believe acupressure or Acup unc As Well As cold work As there is so much misunderstanding and mistreatment feeling As a band tightening around the d traction or caused by some secondary organic such As brain tutors or this is the rarest kind of Many people have mixed head ache Diamond this might he of a daily muscle contraction headache and a hard or sick headache a migraine once or twice a some speculate that the Anticipatory anxiety connected to migraines can produce the muscle tension that causes the muscle con traction headaches some Hurt worse than others and some mostly migraines Are accompanied by even Hal Lucina classical migraines Start the tens a Box like electrical used for Many pain also relieves some and there has been some Success in treating acute migraine attacks with other machines that Send mild electrical currents through the head via electrodes placed on the sometimes overuse of drugs can make headaches headache victims Are notorious abusers Al beit accidentally and often through use of prescribed painkillers Are often but headache sufferers can even abuse aspirin and which Are not without their hazards when taken in Large the first thing most headache specialists try to do with new patients is wean them from whatever drugs they have been Diamond does a Complete neurological examination on headache patients he Basi Cally anybody with a chronic head ache or an acute has a Basic fear they have an organic problem a brain tumor or a blood vessel problem like an an so it is important to take the time with a headache patient doing a careful history and a care Ful neurological examination and whatever tests Are be cause even if the doctor Doest think anything serious is it will allay a lot of fears in the drug of Choice Diamond is continuing research on the heart drug prop Ranolo in a family of drugs called Beta which has been found to prevent migraine headaches in Many victims when taken regular since its usefulness in prevent ing the migraine headache was discovered a few years it has become the drug of Choice for migraine drugs containing some form of ergot Are still considered important aids in aborting but they have unpleasant Side including in Many now Diamond is investigating the possibility that prop Ranolo May be Able to abort the headaches when it is taken just before they experimental work with drugs that inhibit the action of Calcium in the cells is also showing at the National Institute for Den Tal which does pain re search for Elyse Singer is investigating the role of Masculo skeletal mechanical problems in she is looking for people with frequent muscular contraction headaches with no other major sources of pain and no major psychiatric Singer says she thinks there is a Gap in the diagnosis of headaches because doctors generally do not evaluate the Tuscul skeletal sys which she says May cause a lot of people with this kind of pain to go this might include people who have problems with the Temporo Mandibular joint Pmj in the or a disorder called Myo facial pain usually considered to be caused by spasms in shoulder or neck stress and Strain Singer wants to learn what patients May be doing that is biome Chani Cally abnormal and putting stress and Strain on their stretching some straining some others in abnormal pos As in being hunched Over a computer terminal or driving Long people who Are very tense sit clench their grind their and this is where a lot of the muscle headache tends to blend into certain types of Pmj says Barry will Tell you that a dysfunction of the joint Between the upper and lower is the cause of All some doctors dont think it exists at in somewhere in the and Ive devised some Bio feedback programs for dentists that seem to singers program at Nih will try to determine How big a role the Tuscul skeletal problems play in headache and How they Are Best she is especially interested in no pharmacological although she believes that drugs Are often helpful and she maybe there is something correctable you can learn to do without Bruce a psychiatrist and Ortho Peist who specializes in general pain says he believes he has found a particular Type of headache patient who Bene fits especially from the antidepressant drug these patients have what appear to be muscle contraction headaches along with preliminary results with 83 such patients show that the antidepressant drug eliminated the headaches entirely in 67 these patients had had headaches anywhere from three months to 10 and had been treated unsuccessfully by a variety of Smoller theorizes that some underlying possibly with the metabolism of the brain chemical caused the some patients Benefit from doses of the amino acid he sold in Many health food stores As a sleep tryptophan is needed by the brain to make its use in headaches is the biggest headache break says Michigan headache specialist Joel has been in there is no condition of similar magnitude about which there is so much misunderstanding and Saper when you put together All the things youve and that we youre talking about massive and the usually a is the primary they Are made to feel As in it is your fault because youre working or because youre not working hard enough or because you have too Many Chil Dren or you dont have enough or you have too much weve got an answer for you and its always your but he the burgeon ing of legitimate pain centres around the country is the True recognition of the failure of past Sci ence1 and the growth of meaningful specialities toward appropriate treatment of headaches is the real Schrader takes another shot at explaining motives behind film Schrader dismisses notion his movie might be a a los Angeles times san Francisco Paul Schrader has obvious misgivings about this another inter another attempt to explain How and Why he made Mishima a life in four followed by one More Story that May falsely raise expectations among Warner this film has a very curious commercial Schrader on the afternoon of Mishi Mas screening in the san Francis co film i have to continually remind the studio people what the reality is with All the attention its they Are Start ing to think it should perform at the Box it you do not hear Many directors predict their films will be Box office but a former film knows what he has and he says no amount of publicity will draw moviegoers who Are not disposed toward the they read these articles and this film is in Japa its very this Guy kills you cant fool which has also played in festivals in Canada and new has been getting a lot of attention because its executive producers Are George Lucas and fran Cis and because american directed japanese films dealing with existentialism and ritual suicide Are not exactly a Hollywood Warner is opening the film in Quality but those drive in operators who decide to pair it with american ninja will get com summary of mans life Mishima is an impressionist sum Mary of the intellectual life of Yoko the controversial poet and author who Many westerners once heralded As japans most important pos world War ii literary when in a gesture of both political and artistic disembowel a himself at a military base near Tokyo in his name became one of the least discus Sable subjects in enter Paul Ive always been interested in people who sort of feel uncomfortable in their own who feel limited by physical existence and try to get Schrader Mishima was certainly one of those who has exorcised his own demons while writing or direct ing such films As taxi american Gigolo and began talking about doing a Mishima film nearly 10 years investors did not beat a path to his Schrader and his col producer Tom enlisted the support of japanese pro Ducer Mata who got financial commitments from two japanese film and Lucas and who talked Warner into participating in a Japa nes american Warner apparently hoping to Bond future relationships with Lucas and put up the japanese companies put up the film May never be shown in Japan is a consensus he right theres no Consen sus for showing this another twist who says he has of his own Money in the can Only profit from Mishima if it is released in that is the Only Market not tied up by Warner which he says has effectively written him out of profit Mishima part part part fantasy is both the most structured and most free Wheeling film Schrader has some critics have suggested that Schrader compromised the film negotiating for Story he promised Mishima widow that he dwell on her husbands homosexuality like making Patton without mentioning world War one reviewer Schrader does not want to hear i dont take Well to criticism that i somehow sold he if i sell i want a lot of Money for i worked on this movie for two years without a More ;