Changing patterned muscle activity that produces tension in the muscles of the head, jaw, face and neck is like training for a sport. Any sports training involves training muscles to act in a new pattern and training the muscles of your jaw, neck, face and head to act in new patterns can substantially relieve or eliminate chronic headaches.
Reducing muscle triggers should be added to the other common sense approaches to avoiding migraine headache in children and adults.
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.
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.
We are in awe of the personal courage it takes to look for solutions to chronic headaches during years of suffering. People in our mini e-Class have asked for a place where they could share with other headache sufferers. We would like to hear from you so please leave a comment below about your personal [...]
Tom'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.
