About The Clinic
Why choose The Headache and Pain Management Centre?
At The Headache and Pain Management Centre, we do things differently.
We are committed to diagnosing the cause of your pain quickly and accurately, and then implementing the right treatment strategies for your individual needs.
We believe that complex, long-standing and severe headache and pain issues need the most effective, cutting-edge and up-to-date treatment possible. That is why:
- Our assessment and treatment methodologies are different to other physiotherapy practices.
- We have all been trained to the highest level of qualification from the Watson Headache Institute, using the Watson Headache Approach.
- We have invested in the world-beating MedX Medical Lumbar Extension Machine – which is the most effective way to strengthen the specific muscles most responsible for lower back pain.
- We treat active trigger points and psoas muscles, and look at things in a genuinely holistic way using the latest and most up-to-date strategies.
- We begin your treatment with you in mind, tailoring your headache and pain treatment to what you want, not what we want.
- We combine tried and established manual therapy techniques with the latest advances in neuroscience research.
- We push new frontiers and ideas for pain and headache treatments in a safe manner, using both hands-on practice and educative strategies.
- You’ll have one-on-one headache and pain treatment in a private room, with no distractions.
- Our initial consultations are one hour long, which gives us ample time to get to know you and listen to your story.
We have the knowledge needed to help your headache and pain condition. And if we aren’t able to find the answers straight away, we will seek to find them for you. We are genuinely passionate about helping you live the life you want, using the body you have.
Benefit from our cutting edge headache and pain treatments
At the Headache and Pain Management Centre, we understand that you may have tried it all. But often the headache and pain knowledge passed on by clinicians is not the most up-to-date information. Often, the standard treatments you have tried require a more individual touch.
Our clinicians seek out the best information from the leading researchers in their fields – whether they have been published or not – to obtain the widest possible view of what may be causing your individual pain problem. Just because the current best practice guidelines say a certain treatment should work, doesn’t mean that it will for you. We never forget that everyone is different.
Allow us to impart our extensive headache and pain knowledge and unique treatment strategies to you. Our goal is to restore your day-to-day function, where pain isn’t such a burden.
Our Principles
Our promise to you
At Headache and Pain Management Centre we understand that you have probably tried everything to rid yourself of the headaches, pain and suffering that you experience. Our goal is not to see you every one or two weeks for the rest of your life. Instead, we will thoroughly assess your neck and methodically diagnose to determine which musculoskeletal or neurophysiological factor is the reason for your headache or pain condition. We then work with you to treat that cause effectively and in a timely fashion.
On day one:
- We will make it clear which musculoskeletal or neurophysiological factor is a contributing factor to your headache or pain condition.
- We will explain what the case of your headache or chronic pain condition is. If there is a musculoskeletal cause, we will begin treatment on the first day. If there is some other cause, we will investigate other possible treatment methods, which may include advice and education, exercise program or referral to a relevant specialist.
If you have not significantly improved in your first five treatments – and you are the judge of the improvement – then we will reassess your treatment plan. We will always liaise with you to give you what you believe is the best form of treatment. You are in complete control.
We also promise:
- That we will listen and take your story seriously. No symptom is too bizarre, no tale too confronting.
- That we will answer all of your questions to the best of our knowledge, using information sourced from only the most recent and relevant research. In the event that we do not immediately have an answer, we will endeavour to find one for you.
At the Headache and Pain Management Centre, our vision is to be a highly recognised treatment facility, leading the way in the continual development and delivery of world-class, unique and accurate treatment methodologies.
To find out more, please call the Headache and Pain Management Centre directly on 1300 16 55 33 or contact us using our form.
Meet our team
Trina Morris, Senior Clinician
Graduating from the University of Queensland in 2008 with a Master of Physiotherapy studies, today Trina Morris is a Watson Headache® Certified Practitioner and Physiotherapist. She has also completed a Certificate of Cardiac Rehabilitation Exercise from the American College of Sports Medicine, and a Bachelor of Applied Science in Psychology and Kinesiology from Simon Fraser University in Canada.
Trina has worked exclusively in private practice since graduating as a physiotherapist, and joined our team when our East Brisbane Clinic opened in 2015. After seeing first-hand the outstanding results that can be achieved with long suffering headache and migraine patients, she committed to working exclusively with headache and migraine sufferers at The Headache and Pain Management Centre. Her reputation for excellent results has grown in her seven years of treating headache and migraine, and she was duly recognised by the Watson Headache Institute in 2016, by being invited to deliver the keynote address to the Inaugural Watson Headache Symposium, held in Sydney.
In addition to her Watson Headache Institute certification, Trina has undertaken a variety of other professional development courses in order to obtain even more knowledge about the mechanisms of head pain conditions, including the Complete Upper Cervical Spine course, run by the Australian Specialist Physiotherapy Education group in March 2016.
Nikki Rathbone, Senior Clinician
Since graduating with first class honours from the University of Queensland, Nikki has established herself as an excellent clinician in both private practice and hospital settings. Her widespread experience in treating all manner of pain conditions, including low back pain, sporting injuries and headache/migraine conditions, means she is ideally suited to finding and treating your pain condition.
Nikki’s membership of the Women’s Health Committee of the Australian Physiotherapy Association is clear evidence of her passion for physiotherapy and continuing excellence. Her continuing appointment as the head physiotherapist for the championship-winning Queensland Fire and Brisbane Heat women’s cricket team demonstrates her versatility.
Nikki is currently completing her Master’s degree in Sports Physiotherapy at LaTrobe University. She has travelled nationwide to complete over 20 extensive professional development courses, including Trigger Point Dry Needling from the Global Education of Manual Therapists Group, Acupuncture and Dry Needling from the Combined Health Group, Level 2 Watson Headache® Approach, and specific sporting rehabilitation courses including lower limb and shoulder courses. She will be completing her Watson Headache Certification in March 2017, and was one of the first to be accepted for this training for this year.
Nikki also has extensive knowledge of the treatment of women’s health including lymphodema, pregnancy pain and pelvic floor dysfunction. She relishes working at the cutting-edge of physiotherapy and attaining the best outcome for your headache or pain condition.
Chris Fawcett, Director
Since graduating from the University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy in 2007, Chris Fawcett has worked exclusively in private practice. Throughout his career he has dealt with cases varying from acute pain to longstanding pain, and treated all areas of the body. Today, Chris is focused on those patients who are struggling to find answers to their chronic pain – no matter how many opinions may have been sought, tests carried out, or difficulties encountered. This focus has lead him to establish the clinics that would become The Headache and Pain Management Centre.
With a commitment to ongoing education in headache and pain treatment, Chris has undertaken courses locally, nationally and internationally in his efforts to discover the most effective ways to cure and manage pain. He has completed numerous high-level training courses, including the Level 2 Trigger Point Dry Needling course from the Global Education of Manual Therapists’ group, and the Explain Pain Symposium held in Melbourne in 2014. He has also travelled all over Australia to various clinics, working with all manner of different types of therapists, to ascertain the methods needed to get the results for all his patients.
In addition to his degree, Chris has been qualified by the Watson Headache® Institute as a Watson Headache® Certified Practitioner, and in previous years he has been a member of the teaching staff of the Watson Headache® Institute, where he assisted in teaching physiotherapists the specific techniques required to treat headache and migraine conditions.
Chris is passionate about teaching the truth about pain and headaches, and continuing to learn how it all links together. He firmly believes this is still an area where exciting discoveries will continue to be made – helping his patients get better, faster.
