About our headache center:
Types of headaches we treat:
- Any new or old headache evaluation
- Migraine headache with it’s subtypes like vestibular migraine
- Tension headache
- Post-concussion headache
- Cluster headache and other trigeminal autonomic cephalgia (TAC)
- Trigeminal neuralgia at it different types – our multidisciplinary clinic with neurosurgery Dr. Saleem Abdurauf for consideration of surgical intervention
- Evaluation of CSF pressure and volume disorders
- Post COVID headache
- NDPH
The process:
- Establish care visit where one of our headache team members/physicians will spend time with you discussing your headache and associated symptoms, review any previous work up and discuss diagnosis if established
- Decide if any investigation is needed
- Discuss treatment options
- Follow up is key!
- Diagnosing headache
We offer variety of testing from blood work needed for diagnosis and monitoring to imaging with different modalities. However, a lot of times headache diagnosis is clinical. During this meticulous process we provide you with support and walk you through explanation of this process
Treatment of headache:
- Oral preventive therapy with daily medication, injectable monthly medication or quarterly infusion
- Botox
- Nerve block and trigger point injection
- Education on non-pharmacological and nutriceutical approach
Research:
Researchers at The GW Medical Faculty Associate’s Department of Neurology & Rehabilitation Medicine are conducting clinical research trials to learn more about treating migraine disorders.
Clinical research trials search for new ways to prevent, understand and/or treat disease. The goal of these trials is to see if a new treatment, procedure or device works and is safe to use. Participating in a research trial, as either a healthy volunteer or a patient volunteer, is an opportunity to help researchers find better treatments for others in the future.
We currently do not have any active Migraine clinical trials. Please continue to check back often as we update our website regularly.
Contact Information: For more information, interested participants and clinicians may contact the Neurology Clinical Research unit at neurostudies@mfa.gwu.edu.