Sometimes medications just won't work

Some patients who suffer from migraines, occipital neuralgia, and other headaches find relief with medications.  Many other such patients cannot find pain relief with any type of medicine.  

Doctors have long centered migraine therapy around the PHYSIOLOGY of migraine pain, using medications to block or change the chemical reactions in the brain that may be associated with headache pain.  New research has shown that many migraine and headache patients instead have issues with their ANATOMY; the nerves and surrounding tissues in the muscles of the head and neck, OUTSIDE OF THE BRAIN, are causing their headache pain and these issues cannot be corrected with medications.

With the photos below, we hope to help you understand how the anatomy (physical structures) in the body may create headache pain.  This is a very simple website meant only to help you understand your headache, and why it might be a procedure, rather than a pill or a shot, that is required to find headache relief.  If you are interested in learning more, please follow the recommendations toward the bottom of the page.  

Please be aware that the following photos are graphic in nature and show the anatomy of a real migraine paitient.  If you are on a phone, please zoom in to read the text.