What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About(TM): Migraines: The Breakthrough Program That Can Help End Your Pain
by Alexander Mauskop, Barry Fox

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Book Review: Fighting headaches the Mauskop way
Summary: 4 Stars

Headaches are no laughing matter, but for the past twenty years
or so, Dr. Alexander Mauskop has helped thousands of
agonized victims of the malady in the offices of the New York
Headache Center. An associate professor of neurology at
Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY, Mauskop has
focused his practice exclusively on the treatment of headaches,
the migraine version affecting some twenty-five million Americans
(70% women). He has pushed back the frontiers of knowledge in
his books for the layman and articles in professional journals.

Preferring alternative therapy over prescription drugs, he often
starts patients off with biofeedback and acupuncture, moving on
to both prophylactic (preventive) therapies and abortive drugs in
his skirmishes against cerebral soreness.

What is it that your own doctor may not tell you about migraines--
as the suggestive title seductively suggests? Most doctors tell
you little about headache treatment beyond "take two aspirins
and call me in the morning," because they simply do not keep up
with the research, but Mauskop tells us plenty in this easy-to-
read volume replete with anecdotes, humor, and insight. His
treatment du jour, which he personally developed from research
with scores of patients, is the use of a product that combines
magnesium, riboflavin and feverfew; i.e. a mineral often found
deficient in chronic sufferers, a vitamin that works because, well,
who knows why...and a herb which has often been used

especially by Europeans in their fight against pain but which is
only recently commanding the attention of Americans.

While this triple therapy may not reduce headaches for everyone
who tries it (allow 4-6 weeks for the supplement to take effect),
there are many other programs that an individual can employ.
Mauskop describes isometric exercises and ordinary physical
activities that can indeed help to strengthen neck muscles and
provide an overall sense of well-being, but since headaches may
plague the patient even after using these techniques, "What Your
Doctor May Not Tell You" lists a barrage of prescription drugs of
various sorts that can be summoned to service, from the
relatively benign to those containing narcotic agents.

Don't let the ease of delivery fool you. "What Your Doctor May
Not Tell You About Migraines" gives headache sufferers valuable
information on the latest approaches to attacking a malady that
could well be more effective than what our ancestors in Egypt
employed. A doctor in the time of the pharaohs might bore a
hole in your head to let the evil spirits out. They had one thing
right: headaches are the work of the Devil. This book could
provide the exorcism you seek.

Summary of What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About(TM): Migraines: The Breakthrough Program That Can Help End Your Pain

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