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Dr Dean Watson, a Titled Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist completed his undergraduate physiotherapy qualification in 1976 and subsequently a Graduate Diploma in Advanced Manipulative Therapy with Honours, a Masters Degree by original research, and Doctor of Philosophy also by original research. Dean is the Founder and Director of the Watson Headache® Clinic and Watson® Headache Institute.  He continues to consult, presents courses to manual therapists nationally and internationally, and research the role of cervical afferents in the trigemino cervical nucleus otherwise known as brainstem sensitization environment. Can you explain to us the concept of brain stem desensitization? Does your management protocol vary if it is an acute headache or chronic headache? How do you suggest – for practitioners listeningto this – how you determine when other health practitioners are needed in the management and how to integrate this? I note that your PhD was completed in 2016 this means you started it in your late 50s – why