Migraine Treatment London

 

Dr Blatchley is pleased to offer a specialist clinic for migraine sufferers, using the latest techniques with Botulinum Therapy (or Botox as most people call it) to reduce or completely stop attacks. The key indicators to deciding whether the cause of your migraine attacks is likely to respond to Botulinum are as follows:-

  • Do they affect one or more of the 3 trigger points - above the eyes, in the temples or at the back of the head?
  • Do you prefer to lie still away from bright light while you have an attack?
  • If your migraines start above the eye, do you find that pressure on the eyebrow helps?

If you can answer yes to one or more of the above questions then you are likely to find that Botulinum will help, often with a dramatic improvement or total disappearance of your migraines. Here is a typical experience from one of his patients:-

  • "Before I came to see Dr Blatchley I'd been having migraines for years, and almost constantly for 3 months. One treatment and they have disappeared completely. It is the first time for years that I have not felt in fear of the next attack. Magic" Gwendolyn Anderson, Epsom
  • "I have suffered from stress headaches across my forehead for years, and have had to take lots of Neurofen and Migraleve, which have only partly helped. After treatment with Botox they disappeared completely, and only started to come back when the botox wore off. The effect is liberating" Jessica Greene
  • These  patients are happy to be contacted by email. Contact us for details. 

 For further information on assessment of your migraine, please phone 020 7929 4883.

We are so confident about both the effectiveness of the treatment and our selection process that we can offer a guarantee that if you get no improvement then we can refund a proportion of the fees paid (details on request).

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Read on for more information:-

Anybody who suffers from migraine headaches will know how debilitating they can be. Most treatments presently used are limited in their effect, and the misery and expense through days lost at work can be enormous. The causes of Migraines are complicated, but new research is changing doctors’ understanding of how the attacks start, resulting in the potential of a permanent cure for a common group of migraine sufferers. 

Published medical research from America and Germany has described how specially placed Muscle-Relaxing injections of Botulinum in true migraine sufferers can result in a 50% reduction in intensity and frequency for up to 85% of those injected, with up to 50% having no attacks at all for several months, after which the treatment can be repeated. Even allowing for a degree of unintentional selection of patients in these studies the results are remarkable. Overall it appears that at least 50% of all migraine sufferers are helped partly or totally by Botulinum. It is possible to assess before the treatment who is most likely to benefit, so the success rate after selection is much higher. Even so, most medical specialists treating migraines in the UK have not yet caught up with these latest developments and many sufferers are not being told of such an effective treatment through ignorance.

The reasons why the Botulinum can be so effective are still being researched, but it appears to work by relaxing the muscles where the migraines start. It has been know for years that many people's migraines start with spasm of muscles at trigger points, most commonly the eyebrows, temples or back of the head. This spasm mechanically stimulates the nerves at these trigger points which then send unwanted information back to a particular area in the base of the brain where the migraines build up. Indeed the muscular spasm in some people can be so marked that their eyebrows become raised and prominent. A cascade of hyperstimulation starts that both increases the spasm at the trigger points and spreads to other areas to produce the visual and other sensory auras as well as the intense headache.  Botulinum relaxes the muscles at the trigger points and stops the circle of overstimulation before it starts.

Indeed these researchers have also discovered that Botulinum is both an effective treatment in its own right and is also a very effective diagnostic indicator to the effectiveness of surgery to the muscles at the trigger point to permanently prevent the spasm and decompress the nerve, since almost 100% of those who respond well to Botulinum also respond equally well to surgery.

Those who prefer not to go down the surgical route can always continue to have Botulinum therapy but several surgeons in Germany and America are offering surgery for those where it is suitable. Professor Thomas Muehlberger of Berlin University is a leader in the field having studied in America. He comes over regularly to the UK, and forecasts that in a few years there will be several surgeons offering the treatment in the UK since it can work so effectively.

Dr Blatchley has studied under Professor Muehlberger of Berlin University on the use of Botulinum, and is working to make these treatments more freely available. (Click here for his website, and here for an article on the BBC website about his work, and here for an informative Wikipedia entry.)

Dr Blatchley is offering consultations and treatments with Botulinum. Botulinum can be used as a treatment in its own right, and repeated as necessary every few months. Later, for sufferers who respond well to Botulinum and want to explore surgery he can refer you for a further discussion of a permanent surgical cure by a specialist surgeon such as Professor Muehlberger.

 

For further information and assessment of the best treatment of your migraine, please phone 020 7929 4883.