- Oh man.
Do you want easy and fast solutions
for tension headaches to get rid of 'em quickly?
I think I repeated myself, but...
- We will show you eight easy fixes to make you feel great.
- That's right.
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All right, Mike, let's talk a little bit
about what causes tension headaches.
- So it used to be believed that the smaller muscles
in your neck would tighten up chronically causing tension
and creating pain, giving you a headache.
And this is now being questioned, but it is agreed upon
that stress can be a major factor with this.
- Not only these muscles, but also that temporalis muscles
that you feel in your temples is a real common area as well.
All right, so these options that we are showing below,
you can try them, they're either gonna work well
or they're not gonna work so well, you'll know right away.
So let's get right into it.
The first one is for the temporalis headaches,
right in here, it's simple.
It's a small muscle and it fans out.
With your fingertips you're simply gonna make circles
one direction and you're gonna get in deep to massage
the muscle to get that tightness out and go backwards.
You can also use your palms either by your thumbs or here,
I like to go by my thumbs
and that just works a little bit broader of an area.
And some people actually will take their knuckles
and work into those, that temporalis muscle.
And you'll find out, some people find it better in the back.
Some people were in the front.
All right, now if massaging doesn't do it,
we have other good options, Mike.
- So you can use a hot or cold pack
depending on what you like.
We have one from Eye Relief here.
You can microwave it for 50 seconds, or you can put it
in a freezer beforehand, depending upon what you like.
Or you can also just put some rice in a sock here,
heat it up or freeze it as well.
And for the front, if you're getting headaches here
you're gonna wanna probably lay in a recliner
or lay down at bed and put this on your forehead
and get it to feel good.
It doesn't matter if it's hot or cold,
it's whatever you prefer
- Actually, this is my sock.
- Is that a dirty sock?
- No, it's clean.
Actually, I go right over my eyes and roll it back here,
and that works, my area is the temple.
So I, I feel like I got a lot of history
in treating myself successfully.
But yeah, next.
All right, now the next solution I personally
have found very effective is an eye massager.
Now, the first time I learned about these things
I thought, nah, these are not anything but a gimmick.
But I was open-minded enough.
And here Matt is actually, this is Bob's son, by the way.
Say hi.
It's not one of those virtual things
where you're watching a movie or in there
anything weird like that.
It's simply a massager and it's massaging,
actually, the temporalis really gets a nice massager
little air pump, you can hear it go up and down.
There's a little music in there and it heats up as well.
You can adjust it however you would like.
I have have it with heat and medium pressure.
You can go medium, low or high pressure.
Typical, it'll go 15 minutes
almost always before 15 minutes, I am literally sleeping.
It works great.
Both my daughters have it, my sister has it,
and they all love 'em as well.
They're a great, they're not that expensive
and I'm not trying to sell 'em because we're that,
it works for me, I like it.
If you don't like it, send it back.
So, very good.
Now the other thing about the vision
and these things, the pain here,
simply get your eyes checked.
If you have, if you need glasses
if your computer screen is too small or you got cheaters
like me and you're squinting, eh, that causes it.
Well, it's one of those simple things, but get it done.
You should probably have it checked anyways.
Alright, we're gonna go on to the back of the head.
Those headaches in here
and sometimes they'll radiate towards the front.
Oh, we're done, Matt, I would like you to take this off.
I know you want to keep it on, but say hi.
Again, this is Matt.
This is Bob's son, and you got anything to say?
- No, I'm good.
- Well say hi to your mother or something.
- Hi.
- Carry on.
All right, have a seat.
Now, those muscles in the back, there's,
I've had a lot of success with this with other people.
I don't have the problem in the back of the head,
but it's for the massage, Mike's demonstrating.
We got a good shot?
Make circles, and you need to get in deep.
You want to get to the muscles right below
the bone line here, the occiput.
There you go.
And get in deep and do circles.
You'll feel it when you're in the right spot.
You can go both directions, clockwise, counterclockwise.
Now the next technique, if this is not working
or you can try it, it's called splaying.
You can see Mike showing.
It's nice to have someone that shaves his head
because you can see the finger lines.
He's actually pulling the skin apart.
That gets into the fascia and the muscle fibers
and helps relax 'em that way.
You'll do this for 15 seconds, 30 seconds
whatever you need.
If it works, it's gonna work now.
And how you feeling, Mike?
- Good.
- Yeah, it is a nice, yeah.
Yeah, your mic is off.
So, Mike.
(laughing)
- Okay, the next exercise we're gonna do for headaches
in the back of your head is called a chin talk
which you guys have talked about a bajillion times.
So you're gonna bring your neck backwards like this.
You're not gonna tilt your head up and down,
just straight back.
Again, even push either on your chin or your forehead
to push back.
You can do this while laying down in bed as well.
You don't have to do it sitting like us.
But another thing you can also do is add
the splaying massage, the pulling apart like this
while you're doing a chin tuck.
So go back, pull apart, go back and pull apart.
And you can do five, 10 repetitions of these
if they're feeling good.
- That's right.
If you happen to have any pain with this
you're not gonna do it.
These are feel good exercises.
They will feel good right away or you don't do 'em.
All right, the next one is the Levator Scapulae Stretch.
So people may be wondering what that is.
It's a muscle that connects to the occiput right about here,
and it goes all the way down the side of your neck
and connects to your shoulder blade.
It's a thin muscle and there's not a lot of strength to it,
but it's very critical.
And when that muscle tightens up,
it causes pain in the shoulder, up in the head.
And a simple way to stretch this is
if I had a shirt pocket here this is how I always
instruct my patients to do it.
Look down into your shirt pocket.
You will feel that muscle being stretched.
And then if you want, you take your fingertips
and you gently pull and hold that.
- [Mike] Ooh, I got a nice neck crack.
- Hey, you might get a little cavitation there.
This again, small muscle.
If you're like some people like, like Mike
he's got these massive muscles.
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
Look into the pocket.
There you go.
Fingertips only.
Listen up.
- I got a fat neck though.
- Lot of guys especially, they'll grab their whole head.
If a little stretch is good, a lot is a lot better.
Not the case.
It's a tiny muscle, gentle stretch, relax and breathe.
It'll take only seconds to get that muscle to relax.
All right, so good luck with stopping those headaches.
I'm sure at least one or two of these are gonna
dampen 'em down or get rid of 'em.
Mike, I really took the show from you today, I'm sorry.
- You stole it like always.
- Well be happy anyways.
- Okay.
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