WHAT HAPPENS DURING YOUR EVALUATION?

You will be assessed by Nasha Holt, MD. Dr. Holt is a Family Physician who has exclusively focused her practice on headache-related issues since 2006. She collaborates with spine specialist physical therapist, Dr. Jeff Turner, in a comprehensive approach to headaches that heals the source of head, face and neck pain. In the care of headache patients, she:

1. Rules out threatening causes of headaches (like tumors, infection, brain bleeds and hypertension) with a thorough medical evaluation.

2. Provides pain medication management until healing allows the tapering of pain meds. This includes safely transitioning patients from meds that cause rebound headaches.

3. Carefully educates patients and encourages consistent lifestyle choices which promote healing of the neck structures that cause headaches. Topics covered include how to optimize sleep, a health- promoting diet, exercise, stress management techniques, and nutritional supplementation.

4. Refers patients to specialty colleagues in Neurology and Pain Management as patient needs require (e.g., cervical ESI’s, EMG studies, second opinions for refractory pain problems).

» Evaluation Time: 1 1/2 hours
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