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Head & Neck

Headaches / Migraines

Symptoms, causes, and how Clearway specialists diagnose and treat headaches / migraines.

Overview

What is Headaches / Migraines?

Chronic headaches and migraines can be disabling. When headaches are frequent, severe, or resistant to standard care, pain specialists can help identify contributing neck and nerve factors and offer targeted treatments.

Throbbing or pulsating head pain, often one-sided
Sensitivity to light, sound, or movement
Nausea with severe episodes
Pain beginning in the neck and radiating to the head (cervicogenic headache)
Migraine disorders
Cervicogenic (neck-related) headache
Occipital neuralgia
Medication overuse and post-traumatic headache

Your care begins with a careful evaluation - history, examination, and imaging review - to confirm the source of your pain. From there, your specialist builds a plan that may include targeted interventional procedures, physical therapy, and coordinated medication management.

This page is educational and is not a substitute for medical advice. If your pain is severe, sudden, or accompanied by loss of bladder or bowel control, seek urgent medical care.