University Daily Kansan, September 10, 1981
Page 9
Med Center studies headache treatments
By JOLYNNE WALZ
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
"About 50 percent of the headaches can be controlled by placebos." Ziegler
Like the commercial makers of aspirin doctors at the headache clinic at the University of Kansas Medical Center, you find a way to relieve headache pain.
Neurologists Dewey and Paul
Profit treat about 25 headache patients at
the University of Chicago.
Research has shown that placebos—which patients believe are real medicine—even though they are only sugar pills—may actually release pain and stimulate the brain, Ziegler said. Those natural pain-killers are called endorphins.
DOCTORS ARE conducting tests at the headache clinic, comparing the effectiveness of pain-killing drugs to the effectiveness of placebos, he said.
"We'd be delighted to help students and have them participate in the studies. Ziegler said, "They have to learn that they are placebo-controlled studies."
Headache sufferers between 20 and 60 years old who agree to keep a diary of their headaches and visit the clinic may participate in the study, he said. In exchange, they will receive free medical treatment.
Migraine sufferers who want to participate in the Med Center's headache research—and maybe obtain some relief from their pain—should call the neurology department at 913-588-6970.
The research is funded by the
National Institute of Health,股
two department Merck
HEADACHE PATIENTS regularly come to the Med Center from Lawrence, Ziegler said, as well as from North Kansas and neighboring states.
"We did one of the epidemiological studies of headaches in medical literature right here in Kansas City,
The second thing, he said, is that only 10 to 20 percent of the people questioned suffer from severe headaches. He said that even if you were not tended to come back again and again.
and we found two things." Ziegler said. "One is that only about 10 to 20 percent of the people say that they have not experienced headaches."
Although tension headaches are caused by muscular tension, Ziegler said, not much is known about the causes of migraines.
"You'd have to wonder what the people who have never had headaches
PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS show that people who never suffer from headaches are not as anxious or people who have headaches, be said.
"There's no single cause, there's no question about that," he said. "There's presently strong evidence that genetics can explain how most diseases are evidence that migraines run in families."
Ziegler said that he was interested in both the physical and psychological factors involved in headaches because a neurologist before he became a neurologist.
The relationships between the emotional side of life and the physical side is nowhere more puzzling than in the headache field." he said.
HE SAID that the seriousness of a
situation depended on the individual
suffering the injury.
"It depends on two things, the personality of the person and the cultural environment he comes from. Some personalities tolerate pain very little. They seek a lot of help and think pain is abnormal," he said.
Not much headache research has been done in the rest of the world, Ziegler said, but people in some countries probably never suffer headaches.
BESIDES THE headache clinic at the Med Center, headache sufferers can receive a free appointment.
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Research and Treatment Clinic at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, physician Pat Solbach said.
She agreed with Ziegler that placebos could effectively relieve headache pain, but she suggested a different reason for the pain relief.
"Supposedly, headache people are very, very susceptible to the placebo," she said. "Just the mere fact that they come to the headache clinic makes them feel better. It's not the drug, but the way it's presented."
"If you have a physician who knows 'what he's doing, he's very warm and very caring, it helps. We can give a patient comfort and it might not be as effective."
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