Thanks for your comment.

I actually couldn’t disagree more when you say that ‘most headaches are associated with loss of the normal cervical lordosis’. If you saying you think headache sufferers are actually helped by carrying more tension in their neck and shoulders I am shocked. For literally hundreds of patients I have seen major reductions in the frequency and severity of migraines, tension headaches and mixed migraine/tension headaches simply by eliminating the muscle tension in the face, jaw, neck and shoulders. (This was with measuring the muscle activity directly with surface EMG).

The point of the article is not to say that T’ai Chi will do anything for headaches per se, it was illustrating that headache sufferers can benefit by creating new patterns of muscular behavior similar to what occurs during sports training and I used T’ai Chi as a sports example.

That is not to say that the relaxed coordinated movements of T’ai Chi or even Yoga would not be beneficial for headaches but my experience is that neither T’ai Chi training nor Yoga training is directly targeted on the mechanisms which create tension in the jaw, face, head and neck. So it is best to focus on retraining the specific muscles involved in headaches, the tightness of which acts to directly cause tension headaches or serve as a trigger for migraines.

While we have a great deal of sympathy for the not unusual situation he describes, years of ongoing failed treatments for severe daily headaches, we are passionate about getting the information out that there is a non-drug, non-surgical approach that is successful in stopping even severe daily headaches. We are not saying that this nerve decompression surgery does not have the potential to work but we do feel strongly that everyone should have the choice to try a non-drug, no-risk approach before they get so desperate that they will try more invasive and potentially dangerous options.