Headache

Throbbing, sharp, stabbing, pounding, nagging, burning, severe, vice-like, excruciating ... these are all descriptions of pain anywhere in the region of head and neck. Anyone suffering from headache on a regular or semi-regular basis knows how exhausting and disabling this condition can be.

A combination of acupuncture and acupressure may be just the thing you are looking for to give you relief.

Damian Carey, our Doctor of Chinese Medicine, has decades of experience treating patients with headache.

Tension Headache and Chronic Headache:  Level One - Evidence of Positive Effect This level of evidence demonstrates consistent, statistically significant, positive effect

Coeytaux RR, Befus D. Role of Acupuncture in the Treatment or Prevention of Migraine, Tension-Type Headache, or Chronic Headache Disorders. Headache. 2016 Jul;56(7):1238-40.

National Institute for Health Care and Excellence. Management of migraine (with or without aura): NICE guideline CG150. In: National Institute for Health Care and Excellence, editor.2012 (updated 2015).

Lardon A, Girard MP, Zaim C, Lemeunier N, Descarreaux M, Marchand AA. Effectiveness of preventive and treatment interventions for primary headaches in the workplace: A systematic review of the literature. Cephalalgia: an International Journal of Headache. 2016 Mar 2.

Linde K, Allais G, Brinkhaus B, Fei Y, Mehring M, Shin BC, et al. Acupuncture for the prevention of tension-type headache. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2016;4:Cd007587.