Headaches (Hardcover)

by N.M. Raskin (Author), Otto Appenzeller (Author)

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Product Description
A clinical text, this offers coverage of the causes, mechanisms, and treatment of headache and facial pain. This account provides the practitioner with information on this topic and advice on patient treatment. Special attention is given to a hypothesis regarding the mechanism of headache in general, and migraine in particular - the proposed mechanism helping the physician treat patients in a more effective, practical fashion. It also contains a chapter focusing on facial pain, written in a differential context to aid physicians in unravelling this problems.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 412 pages
• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone; 2nd edition (May 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0443085471
• ISBN-13: 978-0443085475
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,170,290 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best headache text yet!!, February 6, 1999

By A Customer

As a Physical Therapist specializing in Orthopaedics, I have treated headaches for 11 years. Raskin has created the most thorough yet understandable resource for diagnosis I've seen.He describes what to look for during evaluation in order to differenciate between types of headaches. He makes the subject understandable without watering down the complexity of the problem.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Tough reading for a non-M.D., but EXTREMELY enlightening, June 5, 1997

By A Customer

This book was "prescribed" for me by my current neurologist during my first appointment. It's the hardest book I ever read all the way through. (My Ph.D. is in Computer Science.) I had a dictionary at my side the whole time. HOWEVER, I learned a whole lot more than I knew from 20 years of treatment for migraines: Varieties and mechanisms of headaches; Superstitions I'd picked up that weren't true; An immense variety of treatments, each of which is successful for some patients. Most treatments are not known to most doctors. E.g., Ergonovine Maleate, with which I have had good success, although only one pharmacy in my area will compound it. This is the book for serious sufferers of headache who are willing to learn more than their doctor probably knows, and then collaborate on their own treatment. Too bad it's out of print. WHERE'S THAT THIRD EDITION???

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Headache, September 30, 2001

By	Anand Mehendale M.D. (Kerrville,TX USA) - See all my reviews

Absolutely outstanding book..and I am a Neurologist..