HEADACHES ARE A WHOLE PERSON DYSFUNCTION

Another reason that headache clinics have been eminently successful is mat their treatment methods are based on the Whole Person or holistic approach. This is logical since almost all headaches begin with emotional stress mat is translated into physiological mechanisms. Pain occurs as arteries in the head dilate. But the pain itself can only be experienced in the brain.

A headache is, therefore, a Whole Person phenomenon that involves the physical, mental, emotional, attitudinal, cognitive and even the nutritional and spiritual levels of the body-mind. Headache clinics respond to this Whole Person involvement by employing an array of alternative

healing therapies which work on varying levels of body-mind function.

Doctors have attempted to duplicate the holistic approach by using a “background” drug as a daily prophylactic, and then using painkilling drugs whenever a headache occurs. As might be expected, this shotgun approach serves only to multiply side effects to the point where patients become increasingly depressed, helpless and dependent on drugs.

What most of us fail to recognize is that drugs often only duplicate tasks that the body-mind itself is entirely capable of doing in a normally healthy person.

In most cases, by using the natural therapies in this book, we may restore lost functions to the point where drugs are no longer needed. Our body mind then becomes capable of taking over the job once more.

The Whole Person approach to healing is also known as holistic healing or holistic medicine. In medical science, its equivalent is behavioral medicine, a multi-disciplinary approach which employs multi-modal therapies. This means that behavioral medicine is administered by M.D.s. Although able to prescribe strong drugs should they be needed, behaviorial physicians prefer to minimize the use of pharmaceuticals, and most employ drugs only when absolutely essential. Much preferred are harmless, non-drug therapies such as acupuncture, acupressure, nutrition, massage exercise, heat and cold therapy, relaxation, biofeedback, creative imagery, stress management and cognitive positivism.

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