Same-day headache treatment in St. Louis. Call or text first and we will get you in today.
Reach us
The text line is shared across our affiliated practices, so tell us it is Headache Express when you write. Please keep clinical detail out of both text and email — neither is a secure channel.
Send us a message
Please contact us before coming in, so we can have the right treatment and the right room ready when you arrive. Tell us what the headache is doing and we will get you in.
Please keep clinical detail brief and general — this form is not a secure channel for protected health information.
Finding us
4477 Woodson Rd, Suite 205
St. Louis, MO 63134
We are on Woodson Road, immediately south of St. Louis Lambert International Airport — close enough that you can be on a plane within about ten minutes of walking out. That location is deliberate. It puts the clinic minutes from I-70 and inside the ring of interstates that most of the metro already uses, so the drive is short from St. Louis City, Bridgeton, Florissant, Clayton and Chesterfield, and straightforward from the Illinois side.
It matters more than it sounds. A treatment that depends on being seen during an attack is only useful if you can actually get here during one — ideally without a long drive, in daylight you would rather avoid, with someone else at the wheel. Short and simple beats central.
The building sits directly on Woodson Road and houses several of the affiliated practices, so if you have been to the Padda Institute or Concussion Center you already know the address.
Getting in
- Parking is on site — you are not hunting for a space on the street or paying a garage.
- The entrance is at ground level. No steps to get in the door.
- There is a full-size elevator — large enough for a wheelchair, a walker or a stretcher.
This is worth spelling out because of who walks in here. People arriving mid-attack are often nauseated, light-sensitive and unsteady, and frequently someone else has driven them. Short walk, flat entry, and a lift that fits both of you.
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Hours
| Monday – Friday | 8:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. |
| Saturday | 8:00 a.m. – noon |
| Sunday | Closed |
Twelve hours a day on weekdays is deliberate. A headache that starts at six in the evening is still treatable the same day, which is the point of the clinic.
Please do not send clinical details or anything you would consider private health information by email — ordinary email is not a secure channel.
Before you come in
Bring a list of every medication you have taken for this headache in the past month, including anything over the counter. How often you have been treating is one of the most useful pieces of information you can give us, and it changes what we do.
If you have had imaging of the head or neck, bring the report. If you know your headache diagnosis, bring that too — and if you do not, that is what the visit is for.
Do not come here for these — go to an emergency department
- A headache that reached maximum intensity within seconds
- Headache with fever, a stiff neck or a new rash
- Weakness, numbness, trouble speaking, loss of vision or confusion
- Headache following a head injury
Headache Express is an outpatient clinic, not an emergency department. Call 911 if any of the above applies.
Insurance
We will verify your benefits and, where a treatment needs prior authorization, we will attempt to obtain it. Note that an authorization is a confirmation that a service meets criteria for review — it is not a guarantee of payment, and no clinic can make that promise on your insurer’s behalf.
Many insurers take days to weeks to approve treatment. Your headache may not understand that.
Payment is due at the time of the service provided.