Headache Treatment
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?
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.
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.
Case Studies
The Case of the Hair Clip Headache
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.
Case Study…”Laura”
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.
Case Study…”Sandy”
Case Study: “Sandy’s” headache type is not typical because she came into the program experiencing low grade headaches almost all the time.
In the News
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.
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.
Surgery for Frequent Headaches?
We ran across an article about surgery for chronic headaches that don’t respond to medication. Since many, many headaches do not respond to many, many medications we feel this is an extreme and mis-guided solution. There really are better ways to deal with chronic headaches!
