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Tension Headaches · Mornington
It startsin your neck.
The headache that builds through the afternoon and sits behind your eyes usually isn't coming from your head. Painkillers treat the headache. They don't treat where it's coming from. Forty minutes to find out.
$97 from this page · normally $160 · pay on the day
Does this sound like you?
- They build through the day rather than arriving suddenly.
- It sits behind the eyes, at the temples, or up the back of the head.
- Your neck and shoulders are tight on the days you get them.
- You take something most weeks and you've stopped thinking of it as unusual.
- Tests came back clear, so nothing changed and nobody looked further.
Headache driven by the neck is one of the most commonly missed causes — largely because the neck itself often doesn't hurt at all.
"Isn't that just a massage?"
No. A massage feels good on a sore neck. Myotherapy asks whether that neck is where your headaches are coming from.
The upper neck refers pain into the head convincingly, and it does it without necessarily being painful itself. What those upper joints do through range, what the muscles at the base of your skull are doing, and whether pressing on them reproduces your actual headache — that's what the assessment is for.
"I've just accepted that I get headaches. Everyone gets headaches, don't they?"
What patients tell DaleForty minutes. Nothing wasted.
This is not a warm-up appointment where you come back next week for the actual treatment. All four of these happen on the first visit.
History
What you do, what set it off, what you've already tried, and what it's stopping you doing.
Examination
Upper neck range, the muscles at the base of the skull, and whether pressure there reproduces your headache. Testing, not guessing.
Explanation
You get told what's actually going on, in plain words, before anything else happens.
Treatment
Hands-on work starts in the same appointment, plus the two or three things to change between now and next time.
Senior Myotherapist · 25 years
Dale Peirson
Twenty-five years of hands on people who were told to take something and lie down. Dale's caseload is chronic and complex — including the necks that turn out to be driving the headaches.
He's the only myotherapist here, so the person who assesses you is the person who treats you, every visit.
The first visit
40-minute assessment and treatment · nothing to pay until you arrive
- Full history and hands-on examination
- A plain-English explanation of what's driving it
- Treatment starting in the same appointment
- What to change before the next visit
Pick a time with Dale.
Booked.
With Dale Peirson at 12/1140 Nepean Highway, Mornington. Parking on site. Wear something you can move in — you stay fully dressed.
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Monday to Thursday · 12/1140 Nepean Highway, Mornington
How many weeks in a row have you taken something for this? The point of the assessment is to find out where they're actually coming from.
Practical bits
- Where
- 12/1140 Nepean Highway, Mornington VIC 3931. Parking on site.
- When
- Monday to Thursday. Closed Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
- Wear
- Something you can move in. You stay fully dressed throughout.
- Bring
- Any scans or reports if you have them. If you don't, that's fine.
- Phone
- 03 5947 4896
Straight answers
Do I need a referral?
No. Book directly.
Will it hurt?
Some of the work at the base of the skull is firm, and if it reproduces your headache briefly, that is useful information rather than a problem. Dale will tell you before he does it.
Should I see a doctor instead?
A headache that is sudden and severe, or comes with fever, visual changes, confusion, weakness or numbness, needs urgent medical assessment — that is an emergency department, not an appointment. For headaches that are new or changing in pattern without those signs, start with the chiropractors in this building: the neck and the nerve supply are their field. Myotherapy is for the muscular and joint-driven kind, and part of the assessment is establishing that yours is that kind.
What if my neck doesn't hurt?
That's common, and it doesn't rule the neck out. Referred headache frequently comes from a neck that feels perfectly fine until it's examined.
Is this covered by private health?
Myotherapy is claimable with most funds that include it in extras cover. Check your level of cover — rebates vary.