Northern California Headache Clinic, specializing in migraine treatment----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------headache, migraine, tension, holistic, medicine, treatment, biofeedback, northern, california, clinic, silicon valley, bay area, cluster, head, injury, dr. peters, dr. scopp, rehabilitation, treatment, post traumatic headache, doctor, santa clara county, san francisco

Northern California Headache Clinic is a multidisciplinary, integrative, medical facility for the treatment of serious migraine, tension, cluster and other headache and head injury problems.

Since 1980, Kenneth Peters, M.D. and Alfred Scopp, Ph.D., have worked together in providing comprehensive treatment of thousands of headache and head injury patients. Located in Mountain View, California, the clinic is 10 miles north of San Jose airport and 30 miles south of San Francisco airport.

The goals of the clinic are:

To decrease headache pain and improve productivity through an individually tailored, comprehensive treatment program.
Teach headache prevention and pain control strategies.

Dr. Peters (left) and Dr. Scopp

Initial evaluations include:

A complete history, physical examination, and medication program performed by Dr. Peters.
Diagnostic tests to assess medical causes of your headache.
Lifestyle prevention strategies and identification of possible environmental, stress, and nutritional precipitants of your headache by Dr. Scopp.

Comprehensive treatment may include appropriate preventive or headache control medications combined with identification and elimination of headache trigger factors. These can include psychological, hormonal, dietary, environmental and ergonomic triggers. Over 500 research studies substantiate the effectiveness of biofeedback in long term preventive and pain control modality. Headache control techniques also include stress management, (thinking differently to reduce stress), trigger point therapy, shoulder-neck exercises, and lifestyle changes.

Biofeedback

TREATMENT EFFECTIVENESS

Numerous studies have documented the effectiveness of a coordinated, simultaneous, comprehensive approach to the treatment of intractable headache. The following bar graph documents improvement over a ninety-day time period at our clinic.

Approximately 25% of our patients have chronic daily rebound headache due to excessive use of prescription or over-the-counter analgesics. These patients must be detoxified off of these offending agents either on an outpatient basis or as an inpatient at El Camino Hospital in order to achieve therapeutic success.

HEAD INJURY

Head trauma and whiplash can result in debilitating headaches and impaired brain functioning which may not be revealed with imaging technology. Neuropsychological testing of over forty measures of intellectual, sensory, motor, speech and memory functioning can help determine the extent and location of injury and direction of rehabilitation.

BIOGRAPHIES

Kenneth S. Peters, M.D

Medical Director: Kenneth S. Peters, M.D. is a Board Certified Internist and certified by the American Board of Holistic Medicine. He is a Diplomate of the American Academy of Pain Management and an active member of the American Headache Society, the American Pain Society, and the National Headache Foundation. He has published a number of articles on effective headache management and has done extensive clinical research in the areas of new headache medication. He also practices general internal medicine and is active on the medical staff at El Camino Hospital. He lectures frequently to physicians for continuing education credit and the general public on effective headache management.
Dr. Peters' resume

Program Director: Alfred L. Scopp, Ph.D. licensed psychologist, co-founded the headache clinic in 1980 and teaches self-care skills to prevent and control headache. He received a Masters from Yale and a Ph.D. specializing in biofeedback and stress reduction from Duke University. He is an active member of the American Headache Society, a Diplomate of the American Academy of Pain Management and on the Allied Health Staff at El Camino Hospital. He has published a number of research papers on headache triggers and teaches primary care physicians biofeedback and headache self-care skills throughout the United States.
Dr. Scopp's resume

Alfred L. Scopp, Ph.D.

Contact Us:

If you would like additional information on our comprehensive programs or would like to schedule an appointment, please call
(650) 961-9430, 9:00AM – 5:00PM PST

Or write to:

Northern California Headache Clinic
515 South Drive #15
Mountain View, Ca 94040

Many private, PPO and HMO insurance programs accepted. Patients can be self-referred or referred by their physician.