Episode 7 - Is Your Headache Neuroplastic? A Practical Self-Check and Safety Guide

This episode walks you through a practical, evidence-informed screening to see whether your headaches are being generated or amplified by a sensitized nervous system — a “neuroplastic” component — and explains why clarifying the driver changes which treatments are likely to work. Listen for clear pattern-based questions about onset, changing pain location or character, unpredictability, stress or anticipation triggers, spread, medication response, and attention effects, plus important red flags that require urgent medical evaluation. If you check many boxes, nervous-system-focused strategies to calm sensitivity and “turn down the alarm” may help; if you check few, structural or medical causes might be more central. Try the episode’s quick reflection exercise and stay tuned for matching tools in future episodes.