Medication Free Headache ManagementBondi Junction, Eastern Suburbs Sydney

Watson Headache® Approach Certified Practitioner

For headache & migraine management at JW Physical Health we utilise the Watson Headache® Approach. The key feature of the Watson Headache® Approach is the temporary reproduction of and resolution of the usual pain a person experiences. If this can be achieved, there is a high probability (80% chance) of significant improvement, if not complete resolution of symptoms.

Jason, our lead physiotherapist, is a Watson Headache® Certified Practitioner. There are only a small number of physiotherapists awarded this title throughout Australia. Even fewer certified practitioners offer the service from Bondi Junction in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. 

Other approaches often overlook cervical afferents (neck input) yet there is much scientific research that shows the neck often plays a causal role in producing headaches and migraines. Although you may feel pain in your head, it doesn’t necessarily start there. Often, the pain you feel is referred pain from another location in your body, particularly the upper neck. We can determine if a problem in your upper neck is contributing to your condition quite quickly via a short physical assignment.

If your neck is the cause or a contributing factor to your condition we will be able to reproduce your same headache pain in a controlled and shortened manner that will not have a lasting effect. This is a bit like putting light pressure on a joint or muscle to test its sensitivity. The results of this initial assessment influence how we proceed in your unique treatment.

Physio to Address the Cause of Headaches with Tailored Management Plans

At JW Physical Health our goal is to address the cause of your pain, to provide scientifically based manual treatment of the neck to address the causes of your headache or migraine problem.

With specific physio techniques and associated clinical reasoning we are able to precisely determine which segment or segments of your body are involved in causing your headache and migraine. Once we determine these segments we can resolve the cause of your pain by addressing these causes. Creating a tailored management plan for you we remove the guesswork out of your treatment so that we can alleviate your pain.

Personalised Physiotherapy Based, Medication Free, & Non-Invasive Treatment Options Available

Our physiotherapy based treatment could be a suitable medication and radiation free alternative for you. We advocate for being non invasive (no injections). Treatment comprises predominantly of a series of non manipulative (no ‘cracking’) physiotherapy techniques applied in a systematic way to provide you with long-lasting benefit.

Types of Headaches that Our Physiotherapists Manage & Treat

You may have been diagnosed with any of the following headache conditions:

1. Migraines
2. Tension Type
3. Cluster
4. Chronic Daily
5. Hormonal or Menstrual Migraine
6. Sinus
7. Cervicogenic
8. Vertigo-Cervical
9. Whiplash Associated
10. SUNCT

Receive Your Own Tailored Headache or Migraine Management Plan from Our Bondi Junction Eastern Suburbs Physiotherapy Studio

Whilst all these headache types and more are recognised as individual conditions, many have overlapping signs and symptoms, which suggests a common cause. This cause, hypersensitivity in the brainstem nerves, can be identified by an accredited Watson Headache ® Approach physiotherapist and treated with its associated specialised physiotherapy techniques at JW Physical Health. If we cannot determine a problem in the upper neck and are unable to reproduce your same headache pain, we can determine very quickly if physio treatment will be successful.

Almost everyone gets headaches from time to time, and many are nothing to worry about. But if you get particularly bad and ongoing headaches that disrupt your normal daily activities, work or personal life, it’s time to seek support.