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Migraine is not a headache that happens to be severe. It is a disorder of how the nervous system handles incoming information, it is a complex brain and nervous system disorder with a range of complex manifestations that go well beyond headache.

Nigel Peek, MSc Chiro (SA) | DIANM, Chiropractic Orthopaedist | PGDip HealSc Pain & Pain Management — Dist. (Otago) | Peek Practice, Grey Lynn, Auckland Do you have persistent headaches or migraine? Recurring neck or back pain? Perhaps a sensitive gut as well? These may not be separate problems. At Peek Practice, the focus is on understanding what connects them — and what that means for how they are managed. Not All Pain Comes From Damage Most people assume pain means somethi

Nigel Peek, MSc Chiro (SA) | DIANM, Chiropractic Orthopaedist | PGDip HealSc Pain & Pain Management – Dist. (Otago) — Peek Practice, Grey Lynn, Auckland Pain is not a signal that travels from damaged tissue to a passive brain. That model — intuitive, persistent, and wrong — has been substantially revised over the last three decades. Understanding what replaced it changes how pain is assessed, explained, and treated. This is not a fringe position. It is the consensus view of c

The short answer Contemporary pain neuroscience tells is that pain is the brain's protective output — not a direct readout of tissue damage. The two are related, but they are not the same thing. You can have severe structural damage with no pain. You can have severe, disabling pain with no identifiable structural cause. In 2020, the International Association for the Study of Pain formally revised its definition to reflect this, acknowledging pain as an experience that can exi