What's up guys, Jeff Cavaliere, Athleanx.com. So if you've got a headache, then you've come
to the right video because I'm going to show you something you can do right here in 90 seconds
that will get rid of the majority of headaches, especially if they are tension based headaches
caused by muscle tightness, we can release those. Now, this is a workout channel,
so I know that we oftentimes can have tension headaches because we overdevelop muscles that
can lead to that and we don't want to miss workouts because our head hurts. That being said,
people that work at a desk all day oftentimes also get tension headaches and I want to help everybody
with this. So, what we do is we break out one of these, this is a lacrosse ball. Now, I've talked
about in past videos, I don't go around telling you to stick lacrosse balls all over your body
because oftentimes it just makes it a bad situation even worse, especially sciatica. But for
this application in a trigger point in the upper trap, this is a godsend, and this is all you need.
So, I'm going to take Jesse here, he's going to be my dummy for this. What a perfect job for you,
Jesse. I've been waiting all along to find the right job, a dummy. So, we're going to take
this ball and utilize Jesse to show you exactly what you have to do. It's a very easy step by step
process. So, the muscle that we're going to try to target here is this. This is the upper trapezius,
and this is where we oftentimes harbor the trigger point that leads to radiating pain up the back of
the neck into your head that causes the headaches. So, if we can put ourselves into a position of
relaxation on that muscle is utilizes something called the Jones Strain Counter Strain Technique.
And with this ball, what your first goal is, is to take it and put it right in the area of the trap
that is most sore when you touch it. All right. Now, what do you do with your
legs? Because it actually matters. The leg on the same side as the trap that you're treating just
gets to kind of lay on its side off does nothing. The leg on the opposite side is actually going to
post up with your foot flat on the floor because you're going to need to do something with that
in a second. What happens up here at the head now is when you have that ball on the spot is number
one, you side bend your head, you bring the ear on the same side as the trap that you're treating
down towards your shoulders. So, you side bend your head down towards that same side shoulder
as Jesse did right there. Then we're going to get a little bit of rotation to the opposite side. So,
all I do is I say just turn your head a little bit so you can look straight up at the ceiling. Okay,
so side bent, but then turn your head so you can look straight at the ceiling.
Now, you want to get this arm up because you get that trap into relaxation. So the arm goes up
over your head as far as it can, and then this arm comes behind on the back of the elbow to basically
hold it there, because all of this has to happen passively. You're not actively holding yourself
in any position. Now, the last thing he does to really drive this home is he uses this posted up
leg here. He presses down through the foot to bridge up, which basically angles his body now
down into that ball a little bit harder, driving that ball right into that really uncomfortable
spot. You feel it? Absolutely. Oh, man. And then all you're going to do is hang out for
ninety seconds and that's it. And what will happen is that trigger point that's being caused by who
knows, a lot of people have a lot of different theories as to what's causing the trigger point.
Whether it's at the facial level, whether it's at the level of the muscle fibers and a cluster
of muscle fibers that are tensed up and won't release, you have to reset the mechanisms of the
stress reflex, whatever it is that's actually causing it, I don't know if you really care as
much as you really want to get rid of it. Within 90 seconds of this guy's, what will happen is you
come out of that position slowly and then you come out and you move your head around just a
little bit to reprogram it, give it a minute or two. If you still have symptoms, that you would do
it to the other side. If it is possible, you could have trigger points in both traps, oftentimes it's
common. So maybe the 90 second technique takes three minutes instead of 90 seconds. The fact is
it's not going to take long for you to obtain the relief. And I've done this before, guys, with back
pain videos, I'm going to link that one for you at the end of this video if you haven't seen it.
If you do the right things, you can actually make an impact very quickly. This is one of
those things that leads to a quick impact. If you found the video helpful, makes you first
of all, you tell me that it worked for you down below and also be on the lookout, because I'm
going to do another one on how to fix a stiff neck using another location here in the same technique.
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because, as you know, a workout with a headache is not as good a workout as one without one.
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