By Neil
Over the Easter break I was camping with Owen and Sarah and a couple of Sarah’s friends and their families.
At night around the campfire one of the dads asked me about headaches.
Now, anyone who is a health professional knows that getting health related questions while relaxing is an occupational hazard, and, generally, most of us love to help, so we welcome these sorts of inquiries.
I was particularly interested in this topic though, because, in my experience, headaches are something that our physios at Physique are geniuses at treating.
He started off asking me if it was normal to have headaches almost every day.
I quickly assured him that it was not and everyone around the fire agreed.
Even when he followed it with, “But, mostly, they aren’t that bad, just a background kind of ache.”
When I asked if he had tried to get help with them, he listed off everything he had tried: GPs, specialists, medication, osteopathy, acupuncture, chiropractic, crystals, meditation, yoga and physiotherapy.
He had really tried to get rid of his headaches.
He is 60 years old now and had given up any hope of finding anything that would provide him with any sort of lasting relief, but then I asked him a question which I hope will change his life.
I asked him if he had ever been treated by someone trained in the Watson Headache Approach?
His answer was no.
I explained that 95 per cent of all headaches can be helped with treatment to the neck.
Almost every headache has, as a causative factor, a sensitised Trigeminal Cervical Nucleus (TCN) which is a nerve bundle that feeds straight into the upper spine.
The Watson Headache Approach is a unique and gentle way of desensitising the upper neck and TCN. It works. It is incredibly effective. It changes lives. And it can only be done by practitioners who have had advanced post graduate training in it.
So, I advised him to come in and see one of our Watson Trained Practitioners.
Last week, I was making a nuisance of myself at the front desk and out he walked from his treatment session.
When he saw me, his face light up with a huge smile and he reached out his hand as he said, “Thank you.”
He couldn’t believe it. No headaches for 10 days since the first treatment session!
He couldn’t recall the last time he had gone that long without a headache.
Now, that’s a great result that has happened very quickly. But we have heard this kind of thing time and again from our headache clients.
If anyone is experiencing headaches, I strongly urge you to get yourself booked in with one of our Watson Trained Practitioners at Physique. You do not need to just put up with them. Come on in and give this incredible approach a go.
Not everyone will get the same fast results as my friend, but I am certain that everyone will be able to say that we have made a difference in their life.
