Why does this happen?

Modern science has discovered that in the brain of a person with migraine, the balance between the areas responsible for processing pain is disrupted. As a result, sensitivity to any stimuli increases. Repeated attacks trigger structural changes in the brain that contribute to the transition to a chronic form of the disease. In other words, the brain learns to hurt.

But migraine is not only a physiological phenomenon. Psycho-emotional factors play an important role in the development of this disease. Many patients have the so-called “migraine personality type”: they are people with a high level of anxiety, responsible, demanding of themselves, sensitive to criticism, prone to self-blame and emotional burnout. Under the influence of stress, they quickly “overheat” from the inside — and this pressure often results in an attack of pain.

When pain lasts for years, it changes not only the body, but also the psyche. A person loses basic trust in the world - the one that allows us to live with a sense of stability, plan for the future, build relationships. Life is reduced to one thing - waiting for the next attack. That is why psychotherapy is a key part of migraine treatment .

When conventional treatment doesn't work

Traditional medicines do not always provide relief or lose their effectiveness over time. Therefore, we use modern techniques that affect the deep mechanisms of pain:

• Transcranial electrical stimulation of the brain (TES) is a method that reduces pain intensity, improves sleep, stabilizes emotional state, and has no side effects.

• Ketamine infusions are a powerful and fast-acting tool. Ketamine blocks glutamate receptors, the same ones that are activated during migraines. It can stop an attack within minutes and reduce the frequency of future attacks. According to Dr. Carlos Zarate of the US National Institute of Mental Health, “with ketamine we can help with migraines within hours.”

• Psychotherapy helps change maladaptive patterns of responding to stress, restore emotional flexibility, and expand the inner space of life.

• Neurohelp brain rehabilitation , art therapy , and body-oriented practices give a person the tools to recover after years of living in stress.

We don't treat pain - we help you live

Each person is unique. For some, pain begins after stress, for others, from a change in weather, for others, from fatigue or internal conflict. That is why our treatment is always individual. We work not only with the symptom, but with the causes - at the level of the body, brain and psyche. And that is why many of our patients begin to live for the first time in many years - without fear, without pain, with hope.

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