Most headaches respond extremely well to nNEAP, whether they are due to migraines, sinus disease, or to other causes, such as neck problems. If the headache is coming from the neck then osteopathy will be an important part of a successful treatment approach. Other types of facial pain such as trigeminal neuralgia and TMJ syndrome can be helped as well.  Many different types of eye conditions may be helped surprisingly well.  

Migraine headaches 
A study carried out at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in London showed that acupuncture was twice as effective as drugs in the treatment of migraine (Jnl. of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Neuropsychiatry 1984; 47. 333-7). Most people (probably 80%) suffering from migraine will find that their migraines disappear for long periods following treatment - perhaps for years at a time, and sometimes they seem to go permanently.

Eye conditions
Some types of eye problems can even be helped with acupuncture, nNEAP and osteopathy. In some conditions such as double vision, poor visual acuity, tunnel vision, and even short sight and squint, acupuncture was shown to be very effective (Acupuncture in Medicine 1992 May Vol 10;1 18-21).

Case study
A patient aged 11 was seen because of his headaches which had troubled him for 6 months. With these there were some visual disturbances and mild giddiness at times. He also had had stomach pains over the previous 3 months. These came in bouts of a few days at a time, and were severe enough to keep him off school, and to wake him at night. On top of this he had suffered joint pains, mainly in his knees and ankles for the previous year. All these problems had been thoroughly investigated at his local hospital but no cause found. Because it was thought that he was a ‘worrier’ he had been having counselling for 3 months. Nobody had paid much attention to the fact that he had fallen and banged his head 6 months before, at about the time his headaches began.