In children with chronic, hard-to-manage headaches, the pain can significantly impact all aspects of life, including school performance, social activities, sleep, mood, appetite, and family interactions.
Our specialists in the Headache Program at Boston Children’s Hospital have great expertise in diagnosing the various types of pediatric headaches and their causes. Together, we help young patients to manage their headache pain, and continue or return to their regular activities by working with patients and their families to ensure that each child we treat is able to meet his or her optimal ability to live life uninterrupted by pain.
Our approach
To find the most effective strategies and methods to help your children, our headache experts in the Department of Neurology collaborate with specialists from the Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, as well as various forms of complementary medicine.
At every step, we take the time to learn everything we can about your child’s condition, talk with you about our recommendations, and address your questions. We also coordinate your child’s headache management with their primary care provider, who remains an essential member of the pain management team.
We offer
Convenient locations: Our headache specialists see patients in our Boston, Waltham, Lexington, and Peabody locations. They also see patients at Boston Children's Weymouth.
Short wait time: We schedule new and urgent patients as soon as possible.
Have your child’s headaches been present for more than three months?
For children with chronic headaches that are especially challenging to manage, we have a clinic in Brookline that takes a multidisciplinary approach to care. Learn about the Chronic Headache Program in Pain Medicine.
