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5 things you’ve been doing wrong for your headaches/migraines

Uncategorized Mar 14, 2018

Have you been suffering for years from headaches/migraines and tried everything under the sun to try to help them?
Here are the 5 common mistakes that people make when trying to treat their headaches and migraines.

According to the Migraine Research Foundation, migraines are the 3rd most prevalent illness in the world and the 6th most disabling.
In our ever increasingly busy lives, sometimes it is hard to take a moment to breathe, let alone stop to take a break. In between, kids, partners, friends, work, and activities, let alone the pain, no one has time to be regularly debilitated by migraines.
Wouldn’t life be that much easier without having to worry about headaches or migraines?

“Life throws enough challenges at us without having to deal with frequent headaches/migraines to make it even harder. Why not make life easier for yourself and take the time to work on you?”

-Dr. Beth Yule – Osteopath at Premier Sports and Spinal Medicine
Here are 5 common mistakes that you might be ma...

Dr Beth Yule’s story : Daily migraines

Uncategorized Mar 14, 2018

How the Watson Headache ® Approach changed my life

Stop me if any of this sounds familiar:

You have suffered for years with headaches or migraines
You’ve had many rounds of manual therapy (e.g.physiotherapy) with little benefit or no lasting results,
You’ve had scans that have shown nothing to indicate the cause of your pain
Panadol and ibuprofen have become solid friends of yours
You may have even been upgraded to their stronger friends
You’ve even been placed on headache/migraine preventative medication which makes your pain better/more manageable, but hasn’t actually made it go away

If any of these statements sound familiar to you then you were in the same boat as me.

My name is Beth, I’m an Osteopath at Premier Sports and Spinal Medicine and I have suffered from daily migraines for 7 years.
As an Osteopath, I treat many ailments and injuries, but headaches and migraines hit close to home from personal suffering. The prognosis for those diagnosed with headaches o

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Everything you wanted to know about migraines, but were in too much pain to ask

Uncategorized Mar 07, 2018

Have you been suffering from migraines or know someone that does?
According to Headache Australia, approximately 15% of the population suffers from migraines at some point in their lives with the greatest prevalence between the ages of 35 and 45 years of age.
If you have been leaving your migraines untreated, or if they are being poorly managed, it can take you down a painful and frustrating path that can lead to:

Lack of motivation or drive

An inability to participate in physical activities

Feelings of social isolation or withdrawal Not feeling like yourself
Decrease in mood

Versus, if your migraines are properly treated by practitioners who specialise in this area:

An increase in motivation and drive

A return to physical activities
Participating in social gatherings, outings, and functions
Feeling like yourself again
Increase in mood

“Migraines aren’t like a sprained ankle. They aren’t something that people can physically see and acknowledge and therefore people who haven’t s...

The Watson Headache ® Approach

Uncategorized Mar 04, 2018

Headaches and migraines in the past have been poorly understood, diagnosed and managed, but now there is a non-invasive, skillful approach to treating them.
Dr. Dean Watson is an Australian Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist who has spent the past 30 years of his life treating headaches and migraines. Over the course of this time, he has developed a medication-free method of resolving headaches and migraines known as the Watson Headache ® Approach.
The traditional medical model aims around reducing or managing your symptoms rather than eliminating them, however with the Watson Headache ® Approach is different.
Through years of research, the Watson Headache ® Approach has identified that the top 3 cervical vertebrae of the spine are responsible for over 80% of headaches and migraines.
This occurs because of the area in the brainstem where nerves from your face and head mix with the nerves from your neck become sensitised, meaning that they are constantly firing. Therefore are primed and ready ...

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5 things you’ve been doing wrong for your headaches/migraines

Dr Beth Yule’s story : Daily migraines

How the Watson Headache ® Approach changed my life

Everything you wanted to know about migraines, but were in too much pain to ask

The Watson Headache ® Approach

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