At-Home Headache Relief

📍 📍 Hello, everybody. Doctor Blake here with Calhoun Spine and Wellness Center. Just want to go over today. One of the most common things that we see in our office, and that’s headaches. With today’s society, we do too much sitting, too much office work. Too much phone usage, looking down, and it’s about inevitable that at some point in one’s life there’s going to be either neck pain or some sort of headaches.

One of the things you’ve got to realize is that muscles of the shoulder, the front of the neck, and the back of the neck all refer pain to the head. So I want to give you some tips today on how you can relieve yourself of a headache at home. Depending on where you’re having it in your head. So tip number one, if your headache is above the ears and into the temples, you can take a claw grip and then pinch this web that’s called the trapezius muscle.

Find a tender spot point and just pinch and hold. for a minute or two until it releases and you should feel some relief especially of this coming through the side of the head above the ear if you’re experiencing pain in the front of the eyes above the forehead then find this muscle on the side of your neck it sticks out it’s called the scm you can turn your head and it pokes out you just pinch that pull your head back forward and just hold pressure on that you can move up and down it a little bit and massage it And you should feel some relief come through the forehead.

If you’re experiencing headaches in the back of the head, then you can interlock your fingers. Put it in the back of your head with your thumbs down. Then take your thumbs and pull up on the neck and hold. And then move and pull up on the neck and hold. And you can also just do circular massages until you feel some of that tension release.

That would relieve pain in the back of the head. Here at Calhoun Spine and Wellness we treat these conditions all the time through chiropractic care. We do myofascial release, laser therapy to relieve headaches. So don’t hesitate. If you can’t get ahold of this problem at home

give us a call.