Posted by drummer (216.28.41.194) on August 06, 1999 at 11:34:06:
Hey! There is a 4 page article in the August 1999 issue of, "Biography", about Dr. Seymour Diamond. He's the guy who heads the Headache Clinic in Chicago. He is 74 years old.
Here's a couple excerpts from the article:
"…..one of the world's leading experts in headache treatment….."
[Suzanne Simmons, executive director of the National Headache Foundation says, "Seymour Diamond was one of the first people to recognize that headaches are a legitimate disorder, one that can significantly reduce the quality of life for millions if left untreated…..He's a true pioneer."]
["In 1972, Diamond opened the Diamond headache clinic, the first private clinic of its kind in the country (more than 800 such centers are in operation today)".]
["At the time that I decided to dedicate myself to it, headache medicine was sorely neglected," Diamond remembers. "Chronic headache pain was very much a mistreated and misdiagnosed disease."]
[Dr. Merle Diamond, the second of Seymour's three daughters and the only one to follow in his footsteps, remembers that during her medical residency in the early '80's, professors referred to her father as "the one who takes care of all the nuts." "Some of them made fun of my father in front of me, because they just didn't respect his work."]
["There's a lot we don't know," he explains. "We still have a long way to go".]
The article is strictly a biography of Dr. Seymour. His life. How he managed to get into the field of work that he is in. His passion for treatments of all headaches…..etc, etc, etc.
I don't know when the magazine interviewed Dr. Seymour. I don't know if it was before or after the recent discovery by Dr. Peter Goadsby concerning Cluster Headaches. Dr. Seymour does NOT talk about various headaches in this article. He talks about his passion for helping all people with all headaches.
There is a little block on top of the article filled with definitions of 4 different types of headaches. The four mentioned are Tension headaches, Migraine headaches, Cluster headaches and Sinus headaches. The definitions are from the writer of the article - Alyssa L. Shaffer (a New York-Based health and fitness writer).
The definition for Cluster headache is:
[Once known as "suicide headaches" due to their unbearable pain, cluster headaches are so-called because they occur in groups, usually at the same time each day. The severe pain-sufferers say it's akin to an ice pick boring through the eye-lasts only an hour or two and may be accompanied by tearing in the eye and nasal congestion on one side of the face. Eighty-five percent of cluster-headache sufferers are male, often with a history of heavy smoking and drinking.]
Thought you might be interested.