Migraines can be caused by having a short leg.
According to a study by the US Army, approximately one out of ten people have an actual leg length difference. Additionally, about one out of one hundred people have pelvic bones which are smaller on one side than the other side.
According to myofascial (muscle and soft tissue) [...]
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Posted in headaches, jaw pain on Nov 22nd, 2009
TMJ is shorthand for Temporomandibular Joint. That refers to your temple area and your jaw bone (mandible.) The joint is supposed to move smoothly but when it doesn’t you may end up with a diagnosis of TMJ Dysfunction or TMJD.
What can cause your TMJ to stop moving smoothly?
An injury or trauma that causes the joint [...]
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Posted in headaches on Oct 18th, 2009
How can yoga help relieve your headaches? Oh, let me count the ways:
It relaxes the muscles around your chest, ribs, shoulders and neck. These are the same muscles that get tight and cause headache symptoms.
Yoga helps reduce your stress. When you’re feeling all stressed, your muscles “clamp down” on nerves that go to your head.
It [...]
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Playing a musical instrument can really be a pain in the neck! Which muscles cause back and neck pain in musicians and what can get rid of the pain?
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There are many ways yoga can help get rid of headaches.
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Why We Hurt explains the causes of our pain. It also tells us what we can do to get rid of our backaches, headaches, shoulder pain, arthritis and fibromyalgia, naturally.
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Posted in headaches, migraines on Apr 17th, 2009
Muscles, posture and headaches are closely related. Discover what causes head pain and what to do to get rid of it.
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Is your posture good or not-so-good?
People with poor posture look like they are leaning or collapsing forward. Often their head is way forward in front of their body (“forward head posture.”) The curve in their neck is either too much or too flat, and so is the curve behind their waist. Their shoulders round forward.
Poor [...]
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Posted in headaches, migraines on Nov 25th, 2007
Your head may actually pound. Light hurts your eyes. Every sound is noise and the noise is all too loud. You might even throw up. You feel bad, and you look bad, too.
I really can’t think of anything worse than a really bad migraine. A broken leg may keep you [...]
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Posted in aging, headaches, migraines on Oct 28th, 2007
Choices, choices, choices.
All of our lives we make choices. More than we would like to make. So many!
Some of our choices have been excellent, and some, well…maybe not so good. But we keep on going.
Jerry L. Old MD is a geriatric physician. I figure, with a name like that, how could [...]
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