Migraine Solutions Medikal Trend
“Migraine Solutions!”, written by Dr. Emel Gokmen and telling the real and scientific treatment method of migraine, developed with a new approach, is published by Hayykitap.
Headache is a problem known for thousands of years. Everyone has headaches from time to time but if it is migraine or tension, it can make your life miserable. Occasional headaches are not that much of a problem but patients with a daily headache not responding to pain killers or treatments are desperate.
Dr. Emel Gokmen states that she wrote this book, beginning with the paragraph “I lived my own migraine again and again with each patient and felt suffocated with their ongoing pain. So be it. At the end we got better and happier together… Now I know that my long lasting struggle for curing migraine is based on the ‘fellowship of sufferers,” to show that migraine and headaches have solutions, for especially desperate patients.
Dr. Emel Gokmen, who has been studying specifically on migraine by combining integrative and conventional medicine for the last decade, discovers the reason of the pain and tries to solve it first.
Gokmen Approach begins with listening the patient. Then, the interference fields, detected via neural therapy, are ruled out. Dr. Emel Gokmen says: “Problems like inflammatory, accidents, surgeries, and dental treatments form interference fields by causing damages in the bioelectrical structure of the body. These interference fields can sometimes affect the whole bioelectrical system and this is what we call a migraine attack.” Gokmen, showing that migraine is resulted from the autonomic nervous system, claims that the source of migraine is the body, to the contrary of the belief “migraine is a brain inflammation”. And she shows this clearly in her book containing the stories and the solutions of her patients.
This book explains migraine and headaches with stories. Dr. Gokmen, states that this method makes it possible to show various migraine and headache types. Most importantly, it shows that migraine is not just a headache. Each story not only shows different characteristics, but reasons and solutions of them as well.
This book, having similar stories for every headache patient, also provides a better understanding of migraine. Each story opens the doors of a new world. Sometimes the reader finds relief by seeing worse cases. Also, they see the positive sides of migraine.
Migraine Solutions!, though created mainly for patients, is a useful and eye-opening resource for clinicians, academic physicians and dentists as well.
How does Gokmen Approach work on the treatment of migraine and headaches?
Gokmen Approach is a treatment algorithm that finds out the reasons of migraine and headaches and treats them with unorthodox methods.
- It claims that “migraine is an interference field disease” and proves this with clinical results. It also disapproves the belief of the last century: “migraine is a brain disease.”
- It sees that migraine is the result of a dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system and finds out what is causing this. Gokmen Approach lists the reasons of primary headaches as classified by IHS and reclassifies them accordingly.
- It shows that cluster headache and trigeminal neuralgia are entirely related to tooth-jaw complex problems, and claims that both of these can only be healed with the help of dental specialists. Gokmen Approach says that the reason of some patients still being sick after dental treatments is the insufficient knowledge of the specialists.
How to treat with Gokmen Approach?
- First, the interference fields are detected. Then with the help of neural therapy and dental treatments, those fields are fixed.
- This takes a team. The managing physician of the treatment (a neurologist, pain specialist or primary care physician) should be familiar with interference fields and tooth-jaw complex. And the other members should be dental specialists (endodontist, restorative dentist, periodontologist, gnathology specialist or prosthodontist, maxillofacial surgeon.)
- To apply Gokmen Approach, above mentioned specialists (neurologist, pain specialist, primary care physician and even the dentists) should have a basic training. After the basic training, this approach can be applied for migraine and headaches. The more experience the specialist gained, the better the chances of success.
Dr. Emel Gokmen
Dr. Gokmen was born in 1967 in Muğla and graduated from Ege University, Faculty of Medicine in 1990. Later, in 1999, she became a specialist in neurology at Istanbul University, Faculty of Medicine.
She quit her job in German Hospital to work on integrative medicine in 2004. Questioning the diagnose-and-prescribe loop, Gokmen focused on finding the reasons of diseases like migraine and headaches. After that, she developed “Gokmen Approach” by combining conventional and integrative medicine (neural therapy, acupuncture, homeopathy, and magnetic field treatment).
Gokmen Approach treats low back – neck pains and hernias, dizziness, tinnitus, fibromyalgia, restless leg syndrome and especially migraine and headaches by discovering their reasons with the help of a combination of conventional and integrative medicine.
Dr. Gokmen, specialized on her own approach, provided solution for migraine and headaches with this new and different approach.
Gokmen claimed cluster headache is the result of problems in the tooth-jaw complex and proved it by dulling the pain with healing those dental problems.
Gokmen, mother of a son, sees the task of healing the pain is her life purpose.
MEDIKAL TREND MAGAZINE, APRIL 2014