Do any of these describe your headaches or migraines?
Do your headaches:
- stop you from enjoying yourself and intrude on your everyday life?
- affect quality time with your family?
- force you to avoid things you enjoy, eg sun, wine, chocolate or cheese?
- make you less effective at school or work?
- mean you find it hard to think or multitask?
Or maybe you have:
- seen specialists who have made a diagnosis, but there is no lasting solution or the solution involves ongoing medication
- had investigations like MRI that have shown no identifiable cause for your problem
- had physio or chiro treatment that has helped but the benefit hasn’t lasted
- felt helpless and resigned to having ongoing headaches or migraines
If you answer ‘YES’ to any of these, you are EXACTLY the kind of person that we love helping at Adelaide West Headache Clinic.
Let Us Help You Achieve Freedom From Headaches and Migraines
Why come to Adelaide West Headache Clinic for help with your headaches or migraines?
We use the Watson Headache Approach as our first line of attack, which means:
- It can be determined quickly if you are likely to respond or not, which saves you time and money
- Your safety is the number one priority – careful questioning and ligament testing comes before any other assessment or treatment
- There is no need for any joint ‘cracking’
- Know exactly what is giving you a headache/migraine – remove guesswork because the specific joints that are involved in the headaches are identified
- You won’t have to keep coming back all the time – once we are ‘on top of it’ the aim will be for you to learn the ways to maintain yourself, so you feel in control of the situation without need to to rely on therapists
Interested in learning how to help your own headaches or migraines?
If you suffer from headaches or migraines, this is the information that you must read so that you can be doing all the right things to help yourself.
This is the same information that we provide to our private patients, everything from practical posture advice to what you need to know about your pillow.
Did you know that regular use of pain relief medication can worsen your headaches?
Read this practical guide and take positive steps to help your headaches and migraines.
Think how much you can save on appointments, medication and time off work!
At last count, there are 50 physios Australia-wide who have trained under Dean Watson to become Watson Headache Certified Practitioners.
Russell Mackenzie is the only Watson Headache Certified Practitioner in Adelaide.
He is devoted to identifying people who have a relevant neck component to their headache or migraine problem, and helping them to reach their full potential.
You can read more about how we can help here – « Why come to us for help with your headaches or migraines?
So What Is The Watson Headache Approach?
The Watson Headache Approach is a systematic approach to assessing and treating headache and migraine problems.
The aim is to identify patients who have a truly relevant relationship between their neck and their headaches or migraines.
This is done through targeted questioning and a specific series of tests.
If you have a headache or migraine at the time of examination, the aim is to identify what is capable of reducing the pain.
If there is no headache present, we identify if there are particular joints that are capable of being involved in your headache or migraine pain.
Regardless of the type of your headache or migraine, the Watson Headache Approach is the best assessment tool in determining if your neck is involved.
If there is a neck component to your problem, the Watson Headache Approach is effective for treatment, including for migraine of all types.
Did you know that the upper neck can be involved in many different types of headaches and migraines?
Of course, the neck isn’t involved in all headaches or migraines, but it can be a dominant factor in a surprising number of different types, including:
- menstrual migraine
- silent migraine
- sinus headache
- migraines triggered by smells, foods and drinks
- tension-type headache
- cluster headache
- SUNCT
- hemicrania continua
- chronic paroxsymal hemicrania
To find out more, simply call us on 1300 730 574 and speak with one of our helpful staff.
You can even schedule a time to speak with Russell Mackenzie to discuss your specific problem, and find out if our approach is likely to be for you.