Headache & Facial Pain Program
Overview
The Headache and Facial Pain Program at Pickup Family Neurosciences Institute
offers a multidisciplinary approach to headache treatment. The goal of
the program is to simultaneously address medical, physical and emotional
needs, with a major focus on patient education. Patients are evaluated
by our headache specialty physicians and a customized plan is developed,
which includes experts in the fields of physical therapy, nutrition, biofeedback,
cognitive behavioral therapy and acupuncture.
The Headache Program is a four consecutive week program comprised of appointments
with our physician and/or his PA, one session with a physical therapist,
one session with a dietary therapist and four sessions with a biofeedback
therapist.
The program tracks outcomes through PHQ-9 and HIT 6 questionnaires, and
we have seen positive changes in our patients’ physical and mental
health after joining this program.
Team
The team is led by Philip O’Carroll, M.D., and includes Ali Makki,
DMD. The nurse navigator for the program is Sheena Dhiman, BSN, MBA.
Support & Education
We hold community education classes and seminars to provide education to
our community on the various types of headaches, management of headaches
and chronic migraines.
Publications, Lectures, Book Chapters
Migraine, Serotonin, and the Mind-Body Dilemma, Economics of Neuroscience, Mar 2010.
Migraine and The Limbic System: Closing The Circle, Psychopharmacology
Bulletin; Vol 40, No 4. 2008.
A series of three sequential, randomized controlled Studies of Botulinum
Toxin Type A for Migraine Prophylaxis, The Journal of Pain; Vol 7, Oct 2006.
Non-Local Neurology: Beyond Localization to Holonomy, Medical Hypotheses, 2011.
Psycho Somatic Disorders and The Brain-Body Connection (Book: Submitted
for publication).
To learn more, visit the
Headache & Facial Pain Program section or call 949-764-6066.