Regenerative

Aesthetics: Headache

Regenerative approaches to

chronic headache and migraine

Hair

PRP for Hair Restoration — Awakening Your Follicles' Natural Potential

Beyond pain management - treating the source of your headaches

Neural Therapy & Perineural Injection Therapy for Chronic Headache

Chronic headaches and migraines affect millions of people — and for many, conventional treatment offers only partial relief. Medications can reduce the frequency and severity of headache episodes, but they rarely address the underlying neurological and structural factors that drive them. At Origins Integrative Health, we offer two powerful regenerative approaches to chronic headache care — Neural Therapy and Perineural Injection Therapy — that target the neurological root causes of headache and migraine rather than simply managing symptoms.

Evidence-Informed Treatment for Thinning Hair & Alopecia

Hair loss is one of the most common and emotionally significant health concerns affecting both men and women — and one that conventional medicine has historically offered limited solutions for. At Origins Integrative Health, we offer Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) therapy for hair restoration — an evidence-informed, biologically intelligent approach that works with your body's own healing capacity to stimulate follicle health, slow hair loss, and encourage meaningful regrowth.

This is not a surface treatment. PRP for hair restoration works at the level of the hair follicle itself — delivering concentrated growth factors precisely where they are needed to reawaken dormant follicles, improve scalp circulation, and create the biological conditions your hair needs to grow.

How PRP Stimulates

Hair Growth

The hair follicle is a remarkably dynamic structure — and one that is highly responsive to the growth factors concentrated in platelet-rich plasma. When PRP is injected into the scalp, it delivers a potent combination of growth factors — including PDGF, VEGF, IGF-1, and EGF — directly to the follicular unit and surrounding dermal papilla cells.

These growth factors stimulate follicular stem cells, promote angiogenesis (the formation of new blood vessels) to improve follicle nutrition, extend the anagen (growth) phase of the hair cycle, and shift follicles from the telogen (resting) phase back into active growth. The result is a measurable improvement in hair density, diameter, and overall scalp health — achieved through your body's own biological resources.

What the Research Shows

PRP for hair loss has been studied extensively across multiple randomized controlled trials and systematic reviews — consistently demonstrating meaningful clinical benefit. A systematic review and meta-analysis published in the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology found that PRP therapy produced significant improvements in hair density, hair diameter, and the anagen-to-telogen ratio compared to placebo controls. A randomized controlled trial published in Dermatologic Surgery demonstrated that patients receiving PRP injections showed a mean increase of 33.6 hairs per cm² at six months — a clinically significant result with no serious adverse effects reported. Research has also shown that PRP is particularly effective for androgenetic alopecia — the most common form of hair loss in both men and women — as well as alopecia areata, telogen effluvium, and hair thinning associated with hormonal changes.

Our Regenerative Therapies

Neural therapy for headaches and migraines

Neural Therapy uses precise injections of procaine — a short-acting local anesthetic — to reset disrupted signals in the autonomic nervous system. The autonomic nervous system plays a central role in the genesis of many chronic headache conditions — including migraines, tension headaches, and cervicogenic headaches — through its influence on vascular tone, neurogenic inflammation, and central pain sensitization.When the autonomic nervous system becomes dysregulated — often as a result of prior injury, scar tissue, chronic stress, or accumulated neurological interference — it can create persistent patterns of vascular and neurological dysfunction that manifest as chronic headache. Neural therapy works by interrupting these dysfunctional patterns at their source — delivering procaine to specific trigger points, ganglia, scars, and autonomic relay stations to reset normal neurological signaling and restore healthy autonomic function.

SIGNIFICANT STUDIES

What the research shows

Neural therapy has been practiced in Europe for over 80 years and has accumulated a meaningful body of clinical evidence supporting its use for chronic pain conditions, including headache and migraine. Research has demonstrated that neural therapy produces significant reductions in headache frequency, duration, and intensity — particularly in patients with chronic migraine, cervicogenic headache, and headache associated with autonomic nervous system dysregulation. Clinical studies have also demonstrated that treatment of scar tissue — including scars from prior surgeries, injuries, or dental procedures — through neural therapy can produce meaningful improvements in remote headache conditions, reflecting the role of interference fields in the perpetuation of chronic neurological pain.

Perineural injection therapy (PIT) for headaches

Perineural Injection Therapy targets the sensitized peripheral nerves that contribute to chronic headache and migraine — delivering a low-concentration dextrose solution along the course of affected nerves to reduce neurogenic inflammation, restore normal nerve function, and interrupt the peripheral sensitization that drives chronic headache.

Many chronic headache conditions involve sensitized peripheral nerves — including the greater occipital nerve, supraorbital nerve, supratrochlear nerve, and auriculotemporal nerve — that contribute to the maintenance of central sensitization and chronic pain. By addressing this peripheral neurogenic component directly, PIT can produce meaningful and lasting reductions in headache frequency and severity — particularly in patients who have not achieved adequate relief through conventional approaches.

SIGNIFICANT STUDIES

What the research shows

Research published in the Journal of Prolotherapy and related literature has demonstrated that PIT produces significant reductions in chronic pain conditions with a neurogenic component — including headache and facial pain syndromes. Clinical evidence supports the use of subcutaneous dextrose injections targeting peripheral nerves as a safe and effective approach for reducing neurogenic inflammation and chronic pain sensitization — with a favorable safety profile and meaningful durability of response.

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Conditions we support

Joint pain & osteoarthritis

Chronic Migraine

Episodic Migraine

Tension Headache

Cervicogenic Headache

Cluster Headache

Occipital Neuralgia

Trigeminal Neuralgia

Hormonal & Menstrual Migraine

Post-Traumatic Headache

Headache Associated With Neck Pain

Facial Pain Syndromes

TMJ

Postherpetic Neuralgia

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CONDITIONS WE SUPPORT

Androgenetic Alopecia (Male & Female Pattern Hair Loss) · Alopecia Areata · Telogen Effluvium · Hormonal Hair Loss · Postpartum Hair Loss · Hair Thinning & Reduced Density · Hair Loss Associated With Thyroid Conditions · Hair Loss Associated With Nutritional Deficiencies

What to Expect

Most patients require an initial series of three to four treatments spaced four weeks apart, followed by maintenance sessions every three to six months. Results are typically noticeable at three to six months — with continued improvement over the course of a full treatment year. PRP is safe, well-tolerated, and derived entirely from your own blood — making it one of the most biologically compatible treatments available for hair restoration.

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© 2026 Origins Integrative Health.

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Testimonials

Hear from our patients

Real experiences from real people. At Origins Integrative Health, our measure

of success is simple — how our patients feel, heal, and thrive over time.

Origins Integrative Health

1432 SE Ankeny St.,

Portland, OR 97214

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