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?
The Problem with Relaxation for Headaches
November 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment
What are the problems with using relaxation training to treat chronic headaches? There may be more than you think.
Is Getting Relief from Headaches as Simple as Training for a Sport?
October 15, 2009 By 2 Comments
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.
Needless Headache Suffering Can Be Prevented
September 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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.
