Level 1 Foundation Headache Course

Receive updated course content and material which will enable you to ...

1. Conduct an effective sensitive (to 'Red Flags' and instability) subjective examination and establish clear reassessment features.
2. Perform (and understand) a responsible and sensitive assessment of the craniovertebral ligaments thereby lessening the impact of your manual examination (and treatment) on potentially vulnerable structures.   
3. Identify confidently relevant segmental (CO-C3) dysfunction, that is, which segment/s is the source of the head pain and/or source of sensitisation underpinning primary headache conditions.
4. Have an effective alternative (to HVTTs) for the management of upper cervical dysfunction

Some of the benefits gained by attending this course are: 

• A Protocol at your fingertips to assess, treat and manage headache and the upper cervical spine 
• An Approach using step by step diagnostic techniques to identify, through temporary reproduction and lessening of a patient's head pain, the spinal segment/s involved in headache and migraine 
• Take the Guesswork out of who you should be treating and how to treat
• Seamless Application of the diagnostic techniques (with unparalleled accuracy) applied as treatment techniques (over 4 - 5 sessions) 
• Know Which Segment/s Are Involved and be 70% - 80% of the way to successful clinical outcomes
• Safe and Effective Assessment of the upper cervical spine
• Confidence when approaching the neck and headache 
• Increased Employment Opportunities as courses highly valued by employers
• Professional Differentiation of both you and your clinic/place of employment
• Patient List Growth through word-of-mouth recommendations
• Being Highly Sought After in your local marketplace 
• A New Service to market in your clinic/place of employment to your database

Course Participant Feedback:

BEST CPD Dollar Ever Spent 

"Can I say that your teaching has become my most potent weapon as a physio. Just today after his fourth session a client, a severe classic migraineur, said "my neck has never felt this good". Cheers for that. Best CPD dollar I ever spent! I would say in the nine years since your Auckland course I have only encountered three people I ruled out cervicogenic headache. Keep up your good works." Greg Bell, Bell Physiotherapy - Wanganui, New Zealand

Promotion post course: 

You will receive a Certificate of Attendance at the conclusion of this course and this will enable you to promote yourself as having attended the Watson Headache^® Level 1 Foundation Course.  The Watson Headache^® Institute directs you in this regard, using the ‘Marketing Permission Given to Course Attendees', whilst acknowledging the Watson Headache^® Institute's intellectual property (including trademarks) and copyright rights. You do not have permission to create a title for yourself using the words Watson or Watson Headache^®.

Watson Headache^® International Community:

Once you attend one of the Watson Headache^® Institute's courses you join the Watson Headache^® International Community of ...

• approximately 2,800 course attendees and
• the many people with headache and/or migraine who have sought the help of health professionals (physiotherapists, chiropractors, osteopaths ad manual therapy doctors) who have attended one or more of the Watson Headache® Institute’s courses.

*^1.  Payment Options for Watson Headache^® Institute Courses:

You can take advantage of the following Payment Options if you have previously expressed interest in the Level 1 Foundation Headache Course or register within the advised timelines. We review our fees annually and if there is to be an adjustment it will take place in the new financial year.

Option 1: Priority Registration Fee AU$1,297 (Saving of $300 off the Standard Fee AU$1,597) Payment in Full at time of Registration, by six weeks before the course. 

Option 2: Early Bird Registration Fee AU$1,397 (Saving of $200 off the Standard Fee AU$1,597) Payment in Full at time of Registration between six weeks and by three weeks before the course start date. 

Option 3: 2 Part Payment Plan AU$1,497 (Saving $100 off the Standard Fee AU$1,597) One payment of $748.50 - at the time of registration and one payment of $748.50 - 30 days later, Payment in Full two weeks before the course start date.

Option 4: Standard Registration AU$1,597 Payment in Full at time of Registration between three weeks and one week before the course start date.

Where a course is hosted by a 3rd party, the course fees are set by the course host. The Watson Headache^® Institute is not responsible for any variance compared with its fee structure.

Level 1 Foundation Course Program:

The Program may be adjusted at the discretion of the presenter to accommodate the course content and patient demonstrations.

DAY ONE

8.30     Registration

9.00     Classification (Medical Model) of Headache

(Lecture/theory)

‘Sensitive New Age Migraine’ &

Contemporary Research (Lecture/theory)

Anatomy and Kinematics

(Lecture/theory)

Objective Examination

(Demonstration/practical)

5.00      Conclusion Day 1

DAY TWO

8.30     Review Day 1

(Theory/Practical)

Subjective Examination

(Lecture/theory)

Objective Examination

(Demonstration/practical)

Patient Examination

(Demonstration/discussion/practical

for some participants)

5.00     Conclusion Day 2

DAY THREE

8.30     Review Day 2

(Theory/Practical)

Objective Examination

(Demonstration/practical)

Patient Examination

(Demonstration/discussion/practical

for some participants)

Treatment

(Lecture/theory)

3.00     Conclusion Level 1 Foundation Course