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Needless Headache Suffering Can Be Prevented

Everyone who suffers with headaches regularly (more than once a month) needs to be taught how to relax the muscles of their jaw, head, neck and shoulders. Unless these muscles are relaxed, they exert a constant drag on any other approach to headache treatment that might be tried. Prescribing medicine without dealing with chronically tense muscles is like putting performance additives in the gas tank of a racing car but not taking your foot off the brake; no real improvement is possible.

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The Problem with Relaxation for Headaches

What are the problems with using relaxation training to treat chronic headaches? There may be more than you think.

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Can Doctor’s Treatment Options Doom You to Ongoing Headaches?

Are some health professionals avoiding more effective treatments for headaches and promoting inefficient drug trails over behavioral treatments that require an investment of time and effort?

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Case Study…”Laura”

January 3, 2009 By Phyllis Leave a Comment

Case Study: “Laura” was a client in our private biofeedback practice. The principles of our online natural headache approach are based on the principles of biofeedback and behavioral change. It will give you a sense of the process.

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Case Study…”Sandy”

January 3, 2009 By Phyllis Leave a Comment

Case Study: “Sandy’s” headache type is not typical because she came into the program experiencing low grade headaches almost all the time.

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The Case of the Hair Clip Headache

October 26, 2009 By Tom Cobb Leave a Comment

So, is a ‘hair clip headache’ really like any other chronic headache? Even though it may be hard to believe, we say that the mechanisms causing this ‘hair clip headache’ are the same as the mechanisms causing many other types of chronic headaches.

In the News

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Drink More Caffeine, Get More Headaches

A recent study by Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and published in the Journal of Headache Pain shows that people who consume high amounts of caffeine suffer more ‘occasional’ headaches than those people who consume a low amount of caffeine.

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New Botox Studies Link Muscles to Migraine Headache

More just released research confirms that reducing chronic tension in the tight muscles of the head significantly reduces the frequency and severity of migraine headaches. This is good news for headache sufferers, the picture is getting clearer. If anyone wants to reduce or eliminate chronic headaches they should start by relaxing the muscles of the jaw, face, head, neck and shoulders.

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Tips for Preventing Migraines in Children

Reducing muscle triggers should be added to the other common sense approaches to avoiding migraine headache in children and adults.

TomTom's work in pain clinics, counseling, biofeedack therapy and T'ai Chi led him to appreciate the importance of these often overlooked headache triggers. He teaches headache sufferers how to identify and eliminate these powerful hidden triggers.

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