Chronic Headaches & Migraines
The triptan in your bag, just in case. The dark room you disappear into mid-afternoon. The plans you cancel before you even know for sure it’s coming. You’ve tried the preventive medications and their side effects, the trigger diaries, the caffeine timing. There is a different way to treat chronic headaches: treat the nervous system that keeps sounding the alarm.
Throbbing, often one-sided pain. Nausea, light and sound sensitivity. A tight band around the skull on tension-type days. Many migraines also carry a cervicogenic component, tension and nerve irritation in the neck feeding the headache above it.
Canceling plans preemptively because you can feel one building. The guilt of missing a family event, again. The quiet anxiety of always half-expecting the next flare, even on a good day.
Triptans and preventive medications manage the storm without asking why your nervous system is primed to overreact in the first place. You deserve a treatment aimed at the amplification itself, not just the flare it produces.
The standard playbook is abortive medication for the acute attack, a preventive medication with its own side effects, and sometimes Botox. What’s missing is direct treatment of the cervical nerve irritation and nervous system amplification that often drive the whole cycle.
Chronic migraine runs on an amplified nervous system: something primes it, something feeds it, and the attack fires. Two patterns show up here again and again. A significant share of patients carry an unaddressed cervicogenic component, tension and nerve irritation in the neck referring pain upward and keeping the system primed. And for many women, the attacks track the cycle instead. Your protocol treats the feeder and the amplification both. If your neck feels fine, that rules nothing out; cervical involvement hides well, and plenty of migraines run without it. The amplification is still the target.
The clinical logic: The acupuncture calms the amplified nerve signaling implicated in chronic migraine. ATP Resonance BioTherapy® calms inflammation in cervical trigger points that commonly refer pain into the head. O3 ReBoot Therapy® improves circulation and reduces inflammation in the muscular and vascular contributors to headache.
The hormonal pattern: Migraines that track your cycle, pregnancy, or perimenopause are often among the most responsive cases we see. The evaluation reads that pattern, and the protocol works on the amplification that turns the hormonal swing into an attack; the hormonal side itself stays with your physician or gynecologist. Cycle-linked care has its own page under hormonal & cycle health.
Nothing changes with your medications except through your prescriber. Neurologists, podiatrists, physical therapists, and more send patients here, and many patients simply send themselves.
Susan Mitchell, AP
Clinical Director · 30+ years
There’s no fixed number of visits and no generic timeline. Your treatment frequency, therapy mix, and program length are set at your evaluation and adjusted at every visit based on how you’re actually responding.
How long you’ve had it and how far it’s progressed sets your starting intensity.
Visit frequency steps up or down based on your measured progress at each visit, not a preset week count.
Symptom relief, or a return to the things you miss: we define the finish line with you, not for you.
Candidacy comes first: the evaluation determines whether the program fits your case; cost is discussed in person after that.
Bring your headache history and current medications. We evaluate your case, including whether you’re not a candidate.
The evaluation sets a specific plan, how long, how often, and which therapies, built around your headache pattern and cervical involvement. Progress is measured against your day-one baseline, not guessed, and the plan adjusts as you respond.
A month you don’t have to warn anyone you might cancel. A trip you actually get to take.
The dinner you stop declining a week early, just in case.
The trip you stop leaving off the calendar.
The plans you stop running past the next possible attack.
Frequent reliance on abortive medication carries a real risk of medication-overuse headache, compounding the very problem it treats. Beyond the physical toll, chronic headache erodes work and family time, and with them the confidence to make plans at all. Treating the underlying amplification interrupts that cycle.
Your initial consultation is $45. Tell us your story, and we’ll evaluate your case.
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Fort Lauderdale, FL 33306
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