I rarely get a headache, but when I do it all the time amazes me at how awful I feel. I'm not just bothered by the pain but my entire mood is altered. I feel like I want to crawl into bed and not come out until it's gone. I can't dream living with headaches which alot of people do. I also noticed that my first response to a sick is all the time to take a pill to try to alleviate it. I see hundreds of patients annually with this scenario and most of these patients have had the headaches for years and pop over the counter pain relievers by the thousands. I have read the newest statistics animated the devastating side effects of these medications published by the New England Journal of medicine and that is why I am writing this article.
I have been in chiropractic convention for over ten years and have eliminated thousands of headaches without medication. The trick to constantly eliminating headaches is to exact the cause. agreeing to an narrative that was published by a foremost dental expert, the suboccipital nerve bundle(a bunch of nerves that sit between the base of the head and the top of your neck)is continuous with the meningial sheath that covers your brain. This meningial sheath is belief to be the foremost source of headaches, in fact when you drink to much alcohol this sheath is what causes the sick part of the hangover. When we look at cause and cure we need enough cases to be sure that we have found the answer. I have personally seen 872 cases of headaches with 871 of these cases having what is termed Fhp "Forward Head Posture". In all 871 cases of send head posture I was able to eliminate or substantially sacrifice the send head posture. Guess how many cases the sick pain was reduced or eliminated, that's right all of them, Bingo.
Forward head posture is generally caused by poor ergonomics at work or at home. It is a learned condition. Your body adapts in time and in need to its environment. By over utilizing certain muscle groups and under utilizing others you form an imbalance. This primary imbalance was documented by a well known neurosurgeon and spine rehabilitation master Vladimir Janda, who termed the imbalance upper cross syndrome. The primary muscles that become hyperactive are the scalenes, Scm, and suboccipital group. This causes the head to move send but at the same time the head also rotates to a chin up position to accomodate the eye line. This head rotation then closes the space between the occipital bone and the first cervical vertebrae. The suboccipital nerve bundle lies in this very tight space so when you have send head posture you start pinching this nerve bundle which is related with the meningial sheath and Wham-O a sick is generated. This also explains why alot of headaches come and go due to the head and body position. The ergonomic position you mouth for a continued period of time will settle how much pressure develops in this delicate nerve bundle. agreeing to x-ray findings some people have more space in this area which makes them less likely to form headaches from this postural distortion. Men generally are less likely to form the Fhp sick due to a larger space as well. people with computer jobs are at top risk because of the constant sitting and send driven ergonomics that are settled on the body in this type of job scenario.
So how do we exact this health and eliminate those nasty headaches once and for all? You have to first take into notice what created the postural dysfunction in the first place, remember it is a learned posture. There are three primary tissues you need to take into consideration: joints, muscles, and ligaments. Restricted joint appeal must be eliminated through chiropractic adjustments. Slow twitch muscles must be retrained or stimulated, this can be done through reactive head weighting, I'll explain later. Ligaments do not reply to either adjusting or rehearsal and this is why long term revision often fails because most people that have tried chiropractic, massage, and rehearsal find it to be only short term relief. Ligaments need to be addressed through creep mechanisms which means pressure over time applied to a ligament will cause the ligament to uncoil and lengthen.
So at my office we have a 4 step process to eliminate send head posture. Adjustments first, muscle detoxification second(this is done using a hand help vibrational tool and applied to the hyperactive muscles), ligament lengthening third(this is done using vibrational traction "Vt" where a vibrating cylinder is settled under the neck and the head is then weighted to induce extension and held for 7-15 minutes causing the previous neck ligaments to lengthen. ) and last glasses are settled on the inpatient which causes the head to rotate upward slightly and a headband with weight in the front is put on to cause the posterior neck muscles to become active. This chain reaction causes the head posture to return to normal. I then place the inpatient on a whole body vibration platform with the headband on to cause the active posterior neck muscles to become hyperactive which speeds up the revision time. After several treatments the send head posture is eliminated and a easy home program with ergonomic tips is in place to preclude return of the Fhp. Once the send posture is successfully eliminated so to are the headaches, neck pain, shoulder tension, and other symptoms related with this base health known as send Head Posture Syndrome.
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