Specialist Migraine Prevention in Edinburgh
Migraine That Keeps Disrupting Your Life?
Gentle, expert care to help reduce how often migraine attacks happen, so you can work, sleep, make plans and get back the days migraine has been taking from you.
- More than 15 years’ clinical experience
- Treatment can usually begin at your first appointment
- Registered with the General Chiropractic Council
The Daily Impact of Migraine
Migraine can take control of your day before any pain has even arrived.
You recognise the warning signs. Your concentration changes. Light or sound becomes uncomfortable. You feel nauseous, unusually tired or aware that an attack is building.
Work becomes difficult. Screens feel unbearable. Plans are cancelled and everything else has to wait.
Even after the worst has passed, fatigue and brain fog can make it difficult to return to normal.
Between attacks, the uncertainty remains.
You carry medication everywhere. You hesitate before making plans. You worry about managing a busy week, an important meeting, a family occasion or a long journey.
Other people may see you looking well and struggle to understand how much migraine is affecting your life.
You want fewer attacks, fewer lost days and the confidence to make plans without constantly wondering whether migraine will take them away.
A Personal Approach to Migraine Prevention
Paul starts with how your attacks begin and build, what tends to set them off and what you’ve already tried. Your treatment is shaped around that pattern, not a standard migraine protocol.
Fewer Attacks. Fewer Lost Days.
Many people come to Paul after years of medication, appointments and fitting their life around migraine. It’s exhausting, especially when nobody has given you a clear way forward.
The sensitivity to light and sound, the nausea and the brain fog all come from the nervous system, and that’s where Paul’s training in functional neurology comes in. He looks at what’s making yours more sensitive, from poor sleep and stress to a stiff neck or tight jaw, and what tends to tip it into an attack. Treatment is gentle, and often includes cranial techniques alongside work on the neck and upper back.
The aim is to make attacks less frequent and less severe, so you can book the meeting, the trip or the night out without a backup plan.
Your Initial Consultation
A Thorough Assessment. Clear Answers. A Plan for Prevention.
Your first appointment is designed to understand your migraine pattern, assess the factors relevant to you and establish the best way forward.
1. Tell Us What Has Been Happening
Paul will ask how your attacks begin and develop, what you experience before, during and afterwards, and how migraine affects your work and daily life.
He will also review relevant medication, previous treatment, scans or medical investigations.
2. A Specialist Clinical Assessment
For some people, stiffness, restricted movement or tension around the neck and jaw can influence the pattern.
Paul will assess how your neck, upper spine and jaw move, where tension or sensitivity is present, and whether movement or gentle pressure reproduces symptoms you recognise.
If dizziness, visual disturbance or unsteadiness form part of your attacks, he may also assess your balance, eye movements and other neurological signs.
This gives Paul a fuller picture of your migraine pattern and shows where treatment should focus.
3. Explanation and Treatment
Paul will explain what he has found, how it relates to your migraine pattern and how treatment can help with prevention.
Where appropriate, treatment can begin during the same appointment and is included in your consultation fee.
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Paul works with a wide range of techniques – from traditional adjustments through to methods gentle enough to use on a newborn baby. Which one he uses depends on your symptoms, your history and how your body responds on the day.
He’ll explain what he’s planning to do, and why, before he does it. If you’d rather not have a particular technique, say so. There’s almost always another way.
Initial Consultation and Examination: £95.00
Includes a full assessment and, where appropriate, treatment the same day.
Why Choose Dr Paul Holmes?
Dr Paul Holmes is the principal chiropractor at One Chiropractic.
He holds a master’s degree in chiropractic and is registered with the General Chiropractic Council, the statutory body responsible for regulating chiropractors in the UK.
Paul has more than 15 years’ clinical experience and has completed further training in migraine care, cranial techniques, functional neurology and complex pain, including functional neurology with Dr Michael Hall and cranial technique with Dr Steve Williams.
Migraine is a core part of Paul’s work, so he knows which details in your pattern matter, including the ones that may have been missed before, and where treatment should focus.
You’ll be listened to, taken seriously and told what he’s doing and why.
Migraine Prevention in Edinburgh
Based at Suite 76, Bonnington Bond, 2 Anderson Place, Edinburgh EH6 5NP, with patients attending from across Edinburgh and the Lothians. There’s free on-street parking nearby, the 10 and 36 buses stop a minute away, and it’s a 10-minute walk from the Foot of the Walk tram stop. More about getting here →
Stop Planning Around the Next Migraine
You’ve spent long enough carrying medication everywhere, cancelling plans, losing working days and recovering in dark rooms. Without the right help, migraine often becomes a pattern you plan your life around, and for some people the attacks become more frequent.
Imagine saying yes to plans without checking how you feel first, getting through a full working week and leaving the ‘just in case’ medication at home. Your first appointment will show you what’s behind your attacks, and treatment can usually begin the same day.