title: [Mental therapy of headache].
abstract: In a group of patients with headache the authors found that mental therapy was very effective. It produced a better effect than previous therapeutic procedures. The authors discuss contemporary views of mechanisms of modern pharmacotherapy of headache and draw attention to its hazards, economic pretentiousness and frequently low availability. The authors mention also non-pharmacological methods used nowadays in the therapy of headache and their relationship to the endogenous opioid system. They explain mental therapy as the interaction and energy exchange between the aura of the emitor and percipient of the mental energy. The authors expressed the hypothetical idea on the basis of analgetic action of mental therapy. They recommend to extend research of mental energy in medical disciplines--theoretical and clinical--and to introduce mental therapy into practice on a professional level. Based on their own experience the authors decided to apply it already now where it gives hope of recovery or mitigation of the patients' suffering. They consider it their duty.
authors.affiliation: Okresní ústav národního zdraví Breclav, Hustopece u Brna.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Oliva
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Válek
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hirt
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000529:Complementary Therapies; D005260:Female; D006261:Headache / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged
vernacular_title: Mentální terapie bolestí hlavy.