Intensive 6 will take your understanding of headache, and in particular the disease migraine, to a whole new level. Learn about the myriad of neurological signs and symptoms that accompany this condition and how you can play a front line role in patient management. This seminar delves even more deeply into the neurology of chiropractic to enhance your clinical thinking and equip you with tools of assessment.

Headache pain is the third most common reason why a patient will come to see you. But some of these patients will have sinister pathologies causing their symptoms. Are you comfortable deciding who is suitable for your care?

How often does a brain tumour present with headache? Or is it more likely to show up with other signs and symptoms first?

Do you ever consider that a patient might have temporal arteritis or acute glaucoma when they tell you about their headache? After all, both of these may cause blindness if you make the wrong judgement call. Can you distinguish between these pathologies and primary headaches?

Are you familiar with the latest research that links atrial fibrillation with the visual aura of migraine? Or aware that these patients have a higher risk of cardioembolic stroke?

Do you always consider the genetic predisposition that your migraine-without-aura patients have to vertebral artery dissection? How does this affect your choice of adjustment technique? In fact, it is your migraine patients that have the greatest risk of suffering a post-manipulation stroke. Do you understand why?

As a chiropractor it might seem obvious that a neck problem can cause a headache. But how exactly does this occur? What makes a migraineur a migraineur, and how does it affect the nervous system beyond the obvious head pain? The biggest trap in managing migraine is thinking that it is just a spine problem. Migraine is a complex neurological disease with many autonomic features, most of which you are probably unaware of.

Learn how to thoroughly assess the migraine patient and determine the optimum course of care for each individual. Migraine patients need lifelong management and you can be the expert in their care. This Intensive will show you all of this and more. So join Dr Matthew Long for an inspiring weekend that will change how you think and how you practice.