Overview
The Headache Center at Tianjin Huanhu Hospital is based in the Department of Neurology. The team includes specialists from neurology, neurosurgery, pain medicine, psychology, traditional Chinese medicine, and rehabilitation medicine. Together, they provide coordinated care for patients with headache disorders — from diagnosis and acute treatment through preventive therapy, rehabilitation, and long-term follow-up.
Featured Techniques and Clinical Strengths
The Center runs a multidisciplinary clinic for complex and refractory headache disorders, with a focus on chronic migraine and medication-overuse headache (MOH).
1. Pharmacological Management
The Center provides individualized pharmacological management according to headache type, attack frequency, disease severity, previous treatment response, and associated conditions.In addition to standard acute and preventive medications, the Center prescribes advanced migraine-specific therapies such as CGRP-targeted monoclonal antibodies.
2. OnabotulinumtoxinA
The team has extensive experience using onabotulinumtoxinA injections to prevent chronic migraine. Injections follow standardized protocols with individual dose adjustments. This is an option for patients with chronic migraine, particularly those with frequent attacks or poor response to oral preventive medications.
3. Multimodal and Integrative Treatment
According to each patient’s clinical characteristics and therapeutic needs, treatment may incorporate psychological interventions, acupuncture, vestibular rehabilitation, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), nerve blocks, and other rehabilitation or non-pharmacological strategies.
Conditions & Diseases Treated
Primary Headache Disorders
Migraine, tension-type headache, and cluster headache along with less common primary headache syndromes.
Particular attention is given to the prevention and management of headache chronification and medication overuse, together with patient education and structured follow-up.
Secondary Headache Disorders
The multidisciplinary team systematically evaluates patients for headaches caused by underlying neurological, cerebrovascular, structural, infectious, inflammatory, ophthalmological, otorhinolaryngological, or other medical conditions. Through clinical assessment and appropriate investigations, the team focuses on identifying headache red flags and conditions that require urgent medical or surgical treatment.
Our Team of Experts
The team is led by Dr. Xiaolin Xu and comprises eight neurologists: Dr. Xiaolin Xu, Dr. Wenjuan Zhao, Dr. Li Li, Dr. Yongming Zou, Dr. Yuan Chen, Dr. Aiwen Ma, Dr. Rui Shu, and Dr. Xiao Zhang. It works in close multidisciplinary collaboration with specialists from neurosurgery, pain medicine, psychology, traditional Chinese medicine, and rehabilitation medicine. The team is led by Dr. Xiaolin Xu and comprises eight neurologists: Dr. Xiaolin Xu, Dr. Wenjuan Zhao, Dr. Li Li, Dr. Yongming Zou, Dr. Yuan Chen, Dr. Aiwen Ma, Dr. Rui Shu, and Dr. Xiao Zhang. It works in close multidisciplinary collaboration with specialists from neurosurgery, pain medicine, psychology, traditional Chinese medicine, and rehabilitation medicine.