In the diagnosis of headaches, expensive brain scans - such as MRA scans, MRI scans and CAT scans - are seldom useful or necessary. Brain scans are only recommended if the neurological examination shows that they are required.

In the majority of headache sufferers, pain does not originate in the brain or inside the skull, but from a structure or structures outside the skull. Proficient in the highly specialised examination techniques developed at The Headache Clinic, our professional staff are trained to detect the origin of the pain in the extracranial structures.