When you have a headache, ice and heat can be beneficial to help relieve the headache. Many people have heard of and tried both of these modalities to help their pain, however, I have found that many people don’t have a good grasp on the how, where, when, and why of using ice and heat.ContinueContinue reading “Ice vs. Heat”
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Dry Needling for Tension Headaches: 5 Muscles to Needle and 2 to Avoid
Neck muscles have fairly predictable referred pain areas that can help narrow down which ones to focus on for your particular headache. In my previous post, I listed 5 muscles to look at if your headaches are in your forehead. In this post, I am going to list out the muscles associated with pain inContinueContinue reading “Dry Needling for Tension Headaches: 5 Muscles to Needle and 2 to Avoid”
3 Possible Sources of Headaches
Whether you have migraines, tension type headaches, cervicogenic headaches or a combination of any of these, treating the neck can help. Research shows that physical therapy can help reduce pain intensity, headache frequency and headache duration for any of these types of headaches. When a patient complaining of headaches, walks into my clinic there areContinueContinue reading “3 Possible Sources of Headaches”
The Headache Therapist 