There is clear clinical and experimental evidence that the BRAINSTEM plays a pivotal role in the migraine process.
Migraine and headache are conditions in which normal light is unpleasant, normal sound uncomfortable, and where there is an abnormal interpretation of activity – one in which normal pulsing of arteries is felt as pain.
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“ … little does it concern the patient that there is an underlying cause … if the practitioner is unable to relieve his pain.” (Persian Avicienna – Critchley 1967)
This statement was made 2000 years ago and remains true today – patients are seeking treatment, but since the cause of migraine remains unclear, treatment is provided [...]
There are numerous case studies which have shown that injecting local anesthetic around the greater occipital nerve the pain of migraine is eased. This is also a key finding in cervicogenic headache and confirms the diagnosis of cervicogenic headache. So why is it that, in this situation, almost invariably the interpretation is that the sufferer [...]
My experience with cluster headache includes a patient who developed cluster headache 2-3 months after a whiplash accident – and treatment of his subsequent neck disorder has meant that he has been pain-free for 5 years.
A recent case study describes the onset of cluster headache after mild head trauma – and whilst most attention is [...]
Uh, uh …. the greater occipital nerve is the culprit!
Injecting the greater occipital has been shown to relieve orgasmic headache. This case study supports my clinical experience which is that orgasmic headache can be treated successfully when relevant neck disorders are identified and treated.
Cheers
Dean
Consultant Headache and Migraine Physiotherapist; Adjunct Lecturer, Masters Program, School of Physiotherapy, [...]
Cheers
Dean
Consultant Headache and Migraine Physiotherapist; Adjunct Lecturer, Masters Program, School of Physiotherapy, University of South Australia; PhD Candidate, Murdoch University, Western Australia
Headache Migraine
Sinusitis is over-diagnosed as the cause of headache and migraine.
Frontal pain more likely results from migraine or tension headache.
Furthermore, according to an internationally recognised authority, just because symptoms do not respond to headache and migraine treatments it should not be assumed that sinus disease is the cause.
(Silberstein SD. Headaches due to nasal and paranasal sinus [...]
Why is it that if treatment of the neck provides relief that it is assumed that cervicogenic (neck) co-exists with migraine or that it is a misdiagnosed migraine? Why can’t it be that cervicogenic factors are instrumental in the migraine process?
Clearly when patients with ‘migraine’ who have not responded to recognised migraine treatments, achieve substantial [...]
Cheers
Dean
Consultant Headache and Migraine Physiotherapist; Adjunct Lecturer, Masters Program, School of Physiotherapy, University of South Australia; PhD Candidate, Murdoch University, Western Australia
Migraine Treatment
In a recent report anaesthetising selected neck structures ceased the hemiplegic aura in a two migraine patients.
This patients’ auras comprised slight weakness, tingling and or numbness involving one side of the body, and face. Within 5 minutes of injecting a local anaesthetic the auras ceased and were not followed by their usual pain states.
I have [...]
