Educating About Headache

Alternating Unilateral Head Pain: The Elephant in the Room

Indeed, this is the elephant in the room! A key diagnostic criterion for CGH is side-locked unilateral head pain, i.e. head pain always occurs exclusively on the same side, never the other.  This has been established by the medical model of headache, respectfully not fully au fait with musculoskeletal medicine. In my experience, whilst side-locked

Read More »

Head Pain Switching Sides: The Migraine Mystery Often Ignored

It’s like the proverbial elephant in the room that no one is talking about. When diagnosing Cervicogenic Headache (CGH), the rulebook says pain must stick to one side – it is supposed to be always on the same side, never the other, a so-called ‘side-locked’ pain. But here is where things get puzzling. As a

Read More »

Talking About Cervicogenic Headache

Introduction ‘Cervicogenic’ refers to ‘neck-related’, and therefore, the cause of ‘Cervicogenic Headache’ lies in the neck; more specifically, research has shown that the cause will be found in the top three spinal segments or joints.1 Consequently, head pain is referred from musculoskeletal misbehaviour or disturbance of any structure supplied by the top three spinal nerves.

Read More »

Cervicogenic Headache: Always the Bridesmaid, Never the Bride

Introduction: This article summarises the medical model’s contemporary perspective of Cervicogenic Headache (CGH) and discusses some factors contributing to the reported low prevalence of CGH.   Cervicogenic Headache, a nuanced subset within the headache spectrum, is surprisingly reported less frequently, ranging from 0.1–4.1 per cent depending on which CGH diagnostic criteria are used1-4 (at this

Read More »

C2-3 The Most Common Source Of Headache

Headache Was Alleviated In 75 Percent of Patients Analysing diagnostic blocks in 166 patients fulfilling diagnostic criteria for Cervicogenic Headache I have been consulting exclusively those with chronic headache/migraine for the past 30 years i.e. 33000 hours of clinical experience with over 8300 patients. The Watson Headache® Approach, which I have been teaching internationally since

Read More »

Misconception 6 of 10

Examining Upper Cervical Segments That reproduction of headache when examining upper cervical segments confirms cervicogenic relevancy – wrong! Whilst reproduction of typical symptoms does not confirm relevancy, if this occurs, one can be very, very, suspicious of cervical involvement. However, there are situations in which reproduction is possible and the source is not the upper

Read More »
Scroll to Top