Headaches

Chronic, debilitating pain in the head or face can limit your ability to perform daily activities and dramatically reduce your quality of life. Though headaches are among the most common reasons for seeking medical treatment, the cause and type of headaches - and their treatment - can vary dramatically.

To determine the most effective treatment, Saint Thomas Health's multidisciplinary team of specialists from the fields of pain medicine, neurology, anesthesiology, and internal medicine provides an individual, patient-centered approach to properly identify the factors involved. At the Nashville Neuroscience Group, Dr. Jan Lewis Brandes and her team, take a special interest in headache treatment and research.

Utilizing the most advanced diagnostic and treatment therapies available, our team is able to ensure that each patient suffering from complex headache disorders receives the most effective treatments available.

Types of headaches treated include:

• Injury or trauma to the head
• tension (related to muscle contraction)
• stress
• migraine
• cluster headaches
• temporal arteritis headaches (related to inflammation of an artery)
• sinus headaches
• headaches as symptoms of other conditions
• tumors