Headache & Migraine Program

Headache & Migraine Program in Overland Park and Johnson County

When migraines steal your workdays and tension headaches follow you home every evening, reaching for another pill is not a plan. Core Medical Center runs a physician-led headache and migraine program in Overland Park that hunts down what is actually triggering your attacks, then treats that source with coordinated care. We serve patients across Johnson County and the Kansas side of the Greater Kansas City metro from our clinic on Barkley near Oak Park Mall.

In short: our Headache & Migraine Program in Overland Park finds why your head hurts, then combines medical pain management, chiropractic care, and targeted procedures under one roof to cut how often and how hard your headaches and migraines hit.

Why a Program and Not Just a Prescription

Most headache visits end the same way: a refill and a referral. The trouble is that medication can quiet today’s pain while the real driver, whether that is your neck, your posture, an irritated nerve, or an old head injury, keeps firing off new attacks next week.

Our program flips that order. We start by mapping your history, your triggers, and the way your headaches behave, then we examine the upper spine and nervous system that routine appointments tend to skip. The treatment plan follows the source we find, not the symptom alone. Because our medical, chiropractic, and therapy teams share one Overland Park building, your evaluation and your plan never get lost in a handoff across town.

Headache and Migraine Types We Treat

We evaluate and manage the full span of recurring head pain seen in Johnson County patients, including:

• Migraines with or without aura, including frequent and chronic migraine
• Tension headaches linked to stress, jaw clenching, and tight neck and shoulder muscles
• Cervicogenic headaches that begin in the upper neck and refer up into the head
• Post-traumatic headaches that linger after a concussion, a fall, or a car crash on I-435 or US-69

If your headaches started after a head injury, your provider can tie your plan to our concussion treatment so both are managed as one. To understand the underlying condition itself, see our headaches and migraines page.

How Your Care Moves Forward

The path through the program stays clear from your first visit:

• Evaluate. We take a thorough history, chart your triggers and patterns, and check your neck, posture, and nervous system for drivers other visits miss.
• Diagnose. We name the most likely source, or the combination of sources, behind your attacks.
• Treat. Your plan may blend medical pain management, chiropractic care, physical therapy, and, when appropriate, injection procedures that calm pain-generating nerves and muscles.
• Adjust. We watch how you respond and refine the plan so relief sticks instead of slipping back.

Who This Program Is Built For

This is care for people who have already tried the basics and still hurt. Maybe your migraines erase a workday at the office park every few weeks, maybe you wake up most mornings with a band around your head, or maybe the headaches never quite went away after a wreck on the Kansas side of the metro. If over-the-counter medicine is the only thing keeping you upright, that is a signal the underlying cause has not been addressed yet.

We see commuters, shift workers, and families from across Overland Park, Olathe, Lenexa, and the wider Johnson County area, many within minutes of Overland Park Regional Medical Center and AdventHealth Shawnee Mission.

Why Core Medical Center in Overland Park

Headache care here stays with a physician rather than getting passed down a chain. Dr. Paul Doskey, our board-certified anesthesiologist focused on pain management, leads the medical side of complex and chronic headache cases, including the targeted injection options that can settle stubborn pain. When the neck and spine are part of the story, our chiropractic team works the structural side of the plan in the same building, so you are not coordinating your own care across separate offices.

That single-roof model is the real difference. Your diagnosis, your hands-on treatment, and your follow-up live in one chart and one team, which means fewer dead ends and faster answers about what is driving your headaches.

What Your First Visit Looks Like

Your first appointment is a working session, not a stack of forms. You will leave understanding why your head hurts and holding a plan you can start, not a referral to somewhere weeks out. Bring a short list of your triggers, how often the attacks come, and anything you have already tried.

Same-week appointments are typically available at our Overland Park clinic. If headaches or migraines are running your week, book a visit and let our team find the source and build your plan.