Best Migraine Doctors in Kansas City
What is a Migraine Headache?
A migraine is a severe headache that typically affects one side of the head and can be accompanied by intense throbbing pain or a pulsing sensation. Other symptoms can include nausea and vomiting, numbness, chills, and sensitivity to light or sound. According to the American Migraine Foundation, more than 39 million Americans suffer from migraines. At Kansas Pain Management, we understand that the pain associated with a migraine can be debilitating and prevent you from living your life.
Migraine Treatment Offered by Kansas Pain Management
- Botox
- Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS)
- Sphenopalatine Ganglion Block
- Supraorbital Nerve Block
- Occipital Nerve Block
- Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA)
- IV Infusion Therapy
What are the Types of Headaches?
There are over 200 different types of headaches that are divided into two main categories: primary headache and secondary headache. A primary headache is one that develops on its own and not as a result of another health problem. The most common types of primary headache include tension-type headache, migraines, and cluster headaches. A secondary headache is one that results from another health problem.
What are the Types of Migraines?
Migraines are characterized by the associated symptoms. This includes migraines with or without aura (sensory disturbances), ocular migraines (temporary visual field loss), hemiplegic migraine (temporary muscle paralysis) and more. Chronic migraines are diagnosed by headaches occurring 15 days or more per month for three or more months, with migraine-like features on at least eight days a month.
Migraine without Aura
Migraine without aura is also known as ‘common migraine’, and is the most common type of migraine. An attack of migraine without aura typically last four hours to three days.
Migraine with Aura
A migraine with aura is also known as a ‘classic migraine’, and develops after or alongside sensory disturbances known as auras. Flashes of light, blind patches, and other vision alterations as well as tingling in your hand or face can be among these disruptions.
Retinal Migraine
Retinal migraines are also known as ocular migraines. Retinal migraines can cause one eye to have brief spells of blindness or vision issues like flashing light that typically last less than an hour.
Migraine With Brainstem Aura
A migraine with brainstem aura is a rare type of migraine that is accompanied by symptoms such as vertigo, ringing in the ears (tinnitus), double-vision (diplopia), unsteady gait (ataxia), or increased sensitivity to loud sounds (hyperacusis).
Status Migrainosus
Status migrainosus refers to a debilitating migraine that continues for more than 72 hours.
How are Migraines Diagnosed?
A healthcare practitioner must recognize a pattern of recurrent headaches, the accompanying symptoms, and the medical and family history in order to make an accurate diagnosis.
What Triggers a Migraine?
Hormonal Changes: Female patients tend to have migraines more frequently right before and right after their menstrual periods.
Food and Drinks: Excessive alcohol or caffeine consumption can often trigger a migraine, as well as skipping meals and being dehydrated.
Irregular sleeping Patterns: For some patients, not sleeping enough or sleeping too much can trigger a migraine as well.
Weather changes: A migraine may be caused by a change in the weather or barometric pressure.
Migraine Treatment
Treatment of migraine headaches begins conservatively with lifestyle modification and medication management. If the migraines persist despite conservative management, a patient may then be a candidate for interventional procedures such as the following:
Botox
If you experience migraine attacks that last 15 days or longer each month then there are high chances that your doctor might recommend Botox as a treatment because botox reduces the neurotransmitters that carry pain signals from the brain.
Acupuncture
Acupuncture is an important part of traditional Chinese medicine and is most frequently used to treat pain. During acupuncture, very small needles are inserted under the skin at specific bodily locations.
Biofeedback
Biofeedback is a process that can help you learn to control some of your body’s functions, like your heart rate. During biofeedback, You are connected to electrical sensors that allow you to receive information about your body.
Injectable Medications
Kansas Pain Management provides a range of injectable headache treatments, such as epidural, facet joint, radiofrequency ablation, and trigger point injections.
Nerve Blocks
Kansas Pain Management provides distinctive headache treatments known as nerve block therapies for its patients, where a numbing agent is carefully injected into the area around a nerve.
Kansas Pain Management - Treatment Philosophy For Migraine Headaches
Kansas Pain Management provides comprehensive pain management service to treat patients with varying degrees of migraines. Our team includes award winning internationally recognized physicians, specialized nurses and anesthesiologists who believe in offering quality treatment for migraine headaches so that patients can restore their lifestyle habits and obtain better health. The goal is to restore the patient’s lifestyle and eliminate drug dependency.
Location We Serve
Kansas Pain Management is a leading interventional pain management services provider in various locations across Kansas, including Overland Park, Lawrence, Leavenworth/Lansing, Kansas City, and Ottawa. So, if you are looking for a reliable pain management service provider in any of these locations, Contact us Today!
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Toni SeyhunMay 15, 2023I started seeing Dr Kneeman a few months ago. He is kind and listens to you. I've had the best experience with him. Just had a spinal injection and he made sure I was not uncomfortable. He is the best!Deborah SpindlerFebruary 14, 2023Ally LudlumDecember 9, 2022Dr. Kneeman took over my care about a year ago, though I have been under KPA's care for about 6 years now. I started with Dr. Gupta. I had been unable to work due to Occipital Neuralgia (diagnosed just before I came to Dr. Gupta), and Dr. Gupta got me back to work in about 3 years, which was an amazing feat! With my treatment plan in place, and Dr. Gupta spending less time at the pain clinic in Ottawa, I started seeing others in his practice. They were great doctors! But I never felt the same level of engagement with them as I had felt with Dr. Gupta. Then I found Dr. Kneeman!! I am always a nervous wreck when I see someone new, but Dr. Kneeman is awesome! Calm as a cucumber while still being very engaged! He's very thorough and very practiced with the tools of his trade! When we decided it was time to renew my RFA (radiofrequency ablation) and we went to do the nerve-block tests, Dr. Kneeman prevented me from experiencing potentially terrifying side-effects! There had been a miscommunication from the last time I had nerve block done (not with KPM) and I was not supposed to be taking OTC aspirin for a week prior to the blocks! (Which I had been as I had no idea!) Dr. Kneeman is the one who discovered this, through the nurse asking him about Ibuprofen that I had taken earlier the day before so he came in to talk to me. We could not do the nerve block that day, but I was, and am, incredibly grateful that he caught the issue before it could become a terrifying experience! Yesterday I had my RFA with him, and he was just as awesome as ever! It helped that I knew I was in amazingly competent hands, so it seemed like no time at all I was back at home, feeling better already! TlDr: I started with Dr. Gupta (who remains awesome), but I am also ecstatically happy that I am now Dr. Kneeman's patient. Both doctors are absolutely incredible and I am so, so grateful to and for them.Amanda ConcannonDecember 6, 2022The Doctors and nursing staff are so wonderful here. They listen to you and work diligently to make you more comfortable. I have lived with an enormous amount of pain for too long. Washing dishes, cooking, getting into my bed and sleeping ,and several minor activities are so painful for me. The doctors here have worked with me and have given me treatment that has made an enormous difference in my life. I recommend them 100% over any other place you could go.Tom DavidsonSeptember 23, 2022I've been going to see Dr. GUPTA for several years. He interested me in using a Nevro Device for the pain in my legs & back. Many years ago I had back surgery & over the years the pain had gotten almost unbearable. The device was a godsend. The follow ups by Nevro people were great & helpful. The staff are very helpful and friendly.Opal WatsonSeptember 23, 2022Good experience every time..staff is great...Dr Gupta is the best...have experiences with him over several years....
Locations where we have our Offices
Quivira Office
Main Office
10995 Quivira Rd,
Overland Park, KS 66210
Phone No. :- 913-339-9437
Lawrence Office
4100 West 6th Ave Lawrence 66049 Kansas USA
Phone No. :- 913-339-9437
Sunflower-Roeland Park
5675 Roe Blvd, suite 210, Roeland Park, KS 66205, USA
Phone No. :- 913-339-9437
Menorah Medical Center
5701 W 119th St, Suite # 102 Overland Park, KS 66209
Phone No. :- 913-339-9437