Enjoy a sense of personal freedom. Learn to recognize your headache triggers, reduce the frequency of headaches and how to manage them when they occur.
Cleveland Clinic Canada offers a unique approach to a very common yet often complex condition. Our comprehensive Headache Education and Prevention Program is designed to help educate you about your headaches and create a customized plan to deal with headache management through non-medication strategies. If medication is required we will develop a program that will minimize your overall medication use.
Ideal for
Canadians suffering from recurring or chronic headaches.
Benefits
- Multidisciplinary approach is designed to assist patients to not only recognize their headache triggers, but provide patients with strategies that will minimize the number of headaches occurring
- Non-medication strategies to help you to cope with your headaches while restoring your activities with your family, work and social life
- Patients report an ability to gain better control over their headaches
- The program helps minimize the significant disability that headaches often impose
Highlights
- The program is a comprehensive 24-week clinically monitored plan
- The team of clinical professionals includes a headache neurologist, clinical psychologist, dietician, exercise physiologist and a dedicated case manager
- The clinical team will help you identify the source of your headaches and create prevention and treatment strategies based on your occurrences.
Coverage
Insurance: The Headache Education and Prevention Program is not covered by provincial health plans, though may be partially or fully covered by extended health insurance plans.
The coverage for each carrier is different; please check your plan to see what coverage is available for this type of service. A physician referral is required for this program.
Chronic headaches are a complex interaction of many factors. Our comprehensive Headache Education and Prevention Program is a unique multidisciplinary program designed to improve the lives of headache sufferers.
Over the course of the 24-week program, participants will work together with a headache neurologist, clinical psychologist, dietician, exercise physiologist and a dedicated case manager. Together, they will help you identify the source of your headaches and create prevention and treatment strategies based on your occurrences.
Week 1
- Meet with a headache neurologist
- Meet with a case manager
- Begin filling out weekly headache diaries. This vital information will provide important clues as to triggers, effective prevention and treatment strategies.
Week 2-4
- Meet with a clinical psychologist
- Meet with a registered dietician
- Meet with an exercise physiologist
Week 5 – 12
- You will have biweekly telephone contact with your case manager to discuss your progress and facilitate any concerns you may have to your clinical team.
Week 12
- Follow up with your headache neurologist to discuss your progress and potential changes in your treatment plan, including adding or adjusting medications.
- Follow up with your clinical psychologist to review your success and discuss your next steps.
- Follow up with your dietician to review your diet record and discuss strategies to continue improving nutritional intake with respect to both headache and weight management.
- Follow up in-person meeting with your case manager to review your progress and make any necessary adjustments to your treatment plan.
Week 12-24
- You will have monthly contact with your case manager as your treatment plan enters a self-directed phase.
Week 24
- Final visit with your headache neurologist to discuss your progress over the last six months, review specific treatment outcomes and discuss the plans for headache management.
Headache Neurologist
Exercise Physiologist
Exercise Physiologist/Case Manager
Registered Dietitian
Registered Dietitian
Registered Dietitian
