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.
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.
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!
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.
