Tension Migraine Relief
dale rogers asked:
Did you know that a tension migraine is much more likely to occur during the middle of the day than
any other time? Whatever causes you stress has a likelihood of happening during the middle of the day when you are active and maybe away from the comforts of your own home. Regardless of the trigger, the mechanics of all tension migraines have some things in common: stress.
How does your body react to stress? Does your neck get tense? If so, this is where your tension migraines begin. When your neck and shoulder muscles get tense and clench up the flow of blood and oxygen to your brain is restricted. It stands to reason that controlling your breathing and relaxing your neck and back can provide some tension migraine relief.
The next time you feel a tension migraine coming on do this: lean your head back and breathe. This \”head back\” position loosens your neck and upper shoulder muscles. If those muscles aren\’t tense you will stay more relaxed and not impair the blood flow to your brain.
Imagine what someone who looks tense and stressed out does with their body. They clench their fists, put their head down (neck and shoulders contracted), tighten their chest, and probably have a scowl or tightness to their expression.
Now imagine what someone relaxed and enjoying themselves looks like. If they are laughing they may throw their head back. They will appear more loose all over. Perhaps they are smiling. They will definitely breathe much easier than the tense person.
my point is that by being aware of your body and controlling its reactions when you feel the beginning of a tension headache you may be able to stop it or at least weaken it by changing how you are holding yourself. If you have a hard time relaxing on purpose you can pull the tension out of your body by stretching your neck, back, and shoulders. The more loose you are, obviously the less tense you are, so anything you can to do let it all slip away will go a long wy towards preventing a tension migraine.
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Did you know that a tension migraine is much more likely to occur during the middle of the day than
any other time? Whatever causes you stress has a likelihood of happening during the middle of the day when you are active and maybe away from the comforts of your own home. Regardless of the trigger, the mechanics of all tension migraines have some things in common: stress.
How does your body react to stress? Does your neck get tense? If so, this is where your tension migraines begin. When your neck and shoulder muscles get tense and clench up the flow of blood and oxygen to your brain is restricted. It stands to reason that controlling your breathing and relaxing your neck and back can provide some tension migraine relief.
The next time you feel a tension migraine coming on do this: lean your head back and breathe. This \”head back\” position loosens your neck and upper shoulder muscles. If those muscles aren\’t tense you will stay more relaxed and not impair the blood flow to your brain.
Imagine what someone who looks tense and stressed out does with their body. They clench their fists, put their head down (neck and shoulders contracted), tighten their chest, and probably have a scowl or tightness to their expression.
Now imagine what someone relaxed and enjoying themselves looks like. If they are laughing they may throw their head back. They will appear more loose all over. Perhaps they are smiling. They will definitely breathe much easier than the tense person.
my point is that by being aware of your body and controlling its reactions when you feel the beginning of a tension headache you may be able to stop it or at least weaken it by changing how you are holding yourself. If you have a hard time relaxing on purpose you can pull the tension out of your body by stretching your neck, back, and shoulders. The more loose you are, obviously the less tense you are, so anything you can to do let it all slip away will go a long wy towards preventing a tension migraine.
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How One Particular Physiotherapy Technique Helps to Manage Migraines
Dean Watson asked:
How a Migraine Sufferer benefited from the Manchester University’s Migraine Trial using the ‘Watson Headache Approach’
“I was really stuck in a rut. I couldn’t do anything without inducing a headache,” says Ms Lord, who also suffered from a stiff neck and describes having a ‘fuzzy head’ most of the time.
That was until she was invited to take part in the UK’s first study to identify whether one particular physiotherapy technique could help to manage migraines (see Building the evidence base,).
Having completed a patient diary and screening to rule out other possible causes of headache, Ms Lord was offered a series of six physiotherapy treatments. She says: “I felt a difference from the first treatment. I’m on my fifth now and with each one my headaches have been getting better… I still get the odd one, but now I can run and play with the kids.”
She is aware of other effects too. “I feel like I’ve had a spring clean in my head. Colours are really vibrant, and when I went shopping the other day I noticed that I wasn’t getting confused,” she says.
Quoted in Frontline Magazine, Issue 17th June 2009, the official journal of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy in the United Kingdom, Titled “When Headache is a Pain the Neck” by Louise Hunt.
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YourHeadacheSoultions.co.uk is one voice of the Watson Headache Institute.
The Watson Headache Institute was established to increase the awareness of cervicogenic (neck) disorders in headache and migraine by imparting my (and that of others) clinical experience and knowledge; to present and discuss past and present relevant research and to undertake and support rigorous clinical and scientific research in this specialty.
Appropriate and up-to-date knowledge is self-empowering; I believe that every headache sufferer has the right to know their headache diagnosis as precisely as possible (and what it means), to know the nature of their headache disorder, its outcome and possible types of treatment.
What has yet to gain acceptance is my (and that of others) belief, supported by my unparalleled clinical experience and a significant body of international research, that it is incorrect to consider headache and migraine types as totally different entities and that cervicogenic (neck) disorders can be instrumental in the headache and migraine process.
Although Physiotherapy, Chiropractic and Osteopathy are different disciplines, we are supporters of the idea that headache and migraine sufferers, no matter what their diagnoses, can be helped to live their lives more effectively through appropriate neck treatment. However, because treatment of the neck does not fit the medical model of headache and migraine, the model has demonstrated little interest in exploring this as an option. It is essential that all factors, which have the potential to sensitise the brainstem, be investigated equally. Currently this is not the situation – the neck is largely disregarded.
So, whilst YourHeadacheSolutions.com is also about Education, it is also a directory for headache and migraine sufferers to source practitioners who have a particular interest in and are skilled in examination of the neck as a source of your headache or migraine – to create a more comprehensive approach and provide an alternative, medication-free treatment.
ver the past 15 years I have developed a series of techniques, which, by way of temporary reproduction of headache and easing of the headache as a technique is sustained, confirm that a neck disorder is the cause of or a significant factor in the mechanism of the headache or migraine – this a key diagnostic criterion for cervicogenic or neck involvement in headache according to the International Headache Society – importantly for the disorder to be related to the headache or migraine process the headache has to ease as the technique is maintained. If both reproduction and lessening are not possible then the neck may not be the source of the headache or migraine. Furthermore my experience has shown that if the techniques are performed in a specific manner it is possible to determine which spinal segment is the cause of or contributing significantly to headache and migraine. Having determined which spinal segment (or segments — there may be more than one) is involved then this significantly increases the chance of the treatment being successful because treatment can be directed at specific, relevant spinal segments.
The application of these techniques in Europe, United Kingdom and Australia has become known as the ‘Watson Headache Approach’ and forms the basis of courses I present for physiotherapists, chiropractors and osteopaths in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Belgium, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Norway and Spain — refer www.headacheeducation.com
The Watson Headache Institute was established to increase the awareness of cervicogenic (neck) disorders in headache and migraine by:
imparting my (and that of others) clinical experience and knowledge
and,
undertaking and supporting rigorous clinical and scientific research in this specialty.
Dean Watson
Consultant Headache and Migraine Physiotherapist; Adjunct Lecturer, Masters Program, School of Physiotherapy, University of South Australia; PhD Candidate, Murdoch University, Western Australia
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How a Migraine Sufferer benefited from the Manchester University’s Migraine Trial using the ‘Watson Headache Approach’
“I was really stuck in a rut. I couldn’t do anything without inducing a headache,” says Ms Lord, who also suffered from a stiff neck and describes having a ‘fuzzy head’ most of the time.
That was until she was invited to take part in the UK’s first study to identify whether one particular physiotherapy technique could help to manage migraines (see Building the evidence base,).
Having completed a patient diary and screening to rule out other possible causes of headache, Ms Lord was offered a series of six physiotherapy treatments. She says: “I felt a difference from the first treatment. I’m on my fifth now and with each one my headaches have been getting better… I still get the odd one, but now I can run and play with the kids.”
She is aware of other effects too. “I feel like I’ve had a spring clean in my head. Colours are really vibrant, and when I went shopping the other day I noticed that I wasn’t getting confused,” she says.
Quoted in Frontline Magazine, Issue 17th June 2009, the official journal of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy in the United Kingdom, Titled “When Headache is a Pain the Neck” by Louise Hunt.
* Share/Bookmark
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YourHeadacheSoultions.co.uk is one voice of the Watson Headache Institute.
The Watson Headache Institute was established to increase the awareness of cervicogenic (neck) disorders in headache and migraine by imparting my (and that of others) clinical experience and knowledge; to present and discuss past and present relevant research and to undertake and support rigorous clinical and scientific research in this specialty.
Appropriate and up-to-date knowledge is self-empowering; I believe that every headache sufferer has the right to know their headache diagnosis as precisely as possible (and what it means), to know the nature of their headache disorder, its outcome and possible types of treatment.
What has yet to gain acceptance is my (and that of others) belief, supported by my unparalleled clinical experience and a significant body of international research, that it is incorrect to consider headache and migraine types as totally different entities and that cervicogenic (neck) disorders can be instrumental in the headache and migraine process.
Although Physiotherapy, Chiropractic and Osteopathy are different disciplines, we are supporters of the idea that headache and migraine sufferers, no matter what their diagnoses, can be helped to live their lives more effectively through appropriate neck treatment. However, because treatment of the neck does not fit the medical model of headache and migraine, the model has demonstrated little interest in exploring this as an option. It is essential that all factors, which have the potential to sensitise the brainstem, be investigated equally. Currently this is not the situation – the neck is largely disregarded.
So, whilst YourHeadacheSolutions.com is also about Education, it is also a directory for headache and migraine sufferers to source practitioners who have a particular interest in and are skilled in examination of the neck as a source of your headache or migraine – to create a more comprehensive approach and provide an alternative, medication-free treatment.
ver the past 15 years I have developed a series of techniques, which, by way of temporary reproduction of headache and easing of the headache as a technique is sustained, confirm that a neck disorder is the cause of or a significant factor in the mechanism of the headache or migraine – this a key diagnostic criterion for cervicogenic or neck involvement in headache according to the International Headache Society – importantly for the disorder to be related to the headache or migraine process the headache has to ease as the technique is maintained. If both reproduction and lessening are not possible then the neck may not be the source of the headache or migraine. Furthermore my experience has shown that if the techniques are performed in a specific manner it is possible to determine which spinal segment is the cause of or contributing significantly to headache and migraine. Having determined which spinal segment (or segments — there may be more than one) is involved then this significantly increases the chance of the treatment being successful because treatment can be directed at specific, relevant spinal segments.
The application of these techniques in Europe, United Kingdom and Australia has become known as the ‘Watson Headache Approach’ and forms the basis of courses I present for physiotherapists, chiropractors and osteopaths in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Belgium, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Norway and Spain — refer www.headacheeducation.com
The Watson Headache Institute was established to increase the awareness of cervicogenic (neck) disorders in headache and migraine by:
imparting my (and that of others) clinical experience and knowledge
and,
undertaking and supporting rigorous clinical and scientific research in this specialty.
Dean Watson
Consultant Headache and Migraine Physiotherapist; Adjunct Lecturer, Masters Program, School of Physiotherapy, University of South Australia; PhD Candidate, Murdoch University, Western Australia
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