I’ll bet your doctor doesn’t look at your posture when you tell him or her about your head pain. Most don’t. But, she should!
Poor posture is the most common cause of headaches.
Why? Because muscles are responsible for most of our pain.
Tight muscles pull on bones. Tight muscles cause bone spurs (arthritis.) Tight muscles press on nerves and blood vessels. Overstretched muscles get trigger points which “fire” pain into other parts of your body, sometimes quite far away.
To be fair, there are a few doctors who do look at posture. When they don’t, it’s because they haven’t been trained in “muscular medicine” or because they simply don’t have time.
But, poor posture is responsible for most pain and dysfunction, including headaches.
You can see that there are a lot of ways for your muscles to cause head pain because muscles have many roles.
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