Connecting With Your Care

As an outpatient of the Diamond Headache Clinic, you will have access to pioneers in the field of headache diagnosis and treatment. Our staff of health care practitioners builds not only a plan for lifelong control over your headache condition, but also a lifelong relationship with your headache-treatment team.

Our outpatient care requires two-way participation and a commitment to the accurate collection of information. Based on the total evaluation, your clinic physician plans an individualized treatment regimen that includes:

• Medication component: A program of specific therapeutic agents is utilized. Patient response is closely monitored to evaluate efficacy and minimize side effects;
• Lifestyle-modification component: Patients are instructed in the areas of diet, recreation, sleep patterns, and other habits linked to headaches;
• Biofeedback-training component: This non-drug therapy gives the patient ample opportunity to actively participate in their treatment and in alleviating headache symptoms. About 70 percent of all patients, especially children with headache and pregnant women who prefer to avoid medication, benefit from this training. It augments other therapies, and is particularly useful for patients in whom stress is a major contributing factor to headaches, or for those patients who are unable to use standard headache agents.