You might have pain across the front of your head, side of your head, into your neck or all three
places in this video, I'm going to show you how to get rid of a headache in less than two minutes.
There's never a good time for a headache. They seem to come at the worst times. They prevent you
from enjoying life. They decrease your quality of life and interrupt your daily activities.
In fact, you might have a headache right now. I want you to share this video with someone you
know, that suffers from neck pain or headaches. I know they'll appreciate it. The amount of time we
spend in front of our computers, sitting in poor posture, definitely contributes to this problem.
I want to get right to it and show you how you can relieve your headache in two minutes or less
in the comfort of your home. Follow along with me now. We're going to do three things in this
routine. I've found it really effective for cervicogenic headaches, tension type headaches
and even my migraine patients seem to benefit significantly from this routine. If you find
after doing this, your headaches are gone great. It might take up to 15 minutes to work,
but if they're still there, then repeat the process. So the very first thing we're gonna do
is we're do a trigger point in the suboccipital area. So we're in take our fingers. We're going
to drop off the back of our skull into that tender area. You can either do circular movements
or you can just do a trigger point. The thing we want to do, though,
that's going to make this a bit different is we're to take our chin and tuck it in to elongate
the muscle and stretch them at the same time. What that does, It allows you to get deeper
into the suboccipital triangle, which is a common cause of these types of headaches.
And we're gonna do this for about 30 seconds. Again, you can do circular motions if you want,
keep your chin tucked and your neck elongated. We want to stretch and get really deep
in to that area. You'll know you're on it when you find that tender spot, you might even reproduce
some of the discomfort in the head or neck. The next thing we're gonna do, we're going to stretch
that same area and we're gonna do this very specifically. What we want to do is we want
to actually take our hands and we want to pull our thumbs along our jaw line. And what we're going to
do is we're going to kind of keep our thumbs together. And as we tuck (chin), we're going
to pull up so the movement's going to be this. So we're gonna rotate forward gently as we chin tuck.
So again, if you have TMJ problems, watch out, cause it might irritate your TMJ joint. Just
keep your thumbs off. If you need to or grab a bit lower, but the best way to do it along the jawline
chin tuck. And we're going to pull up as we're doing this is going to traction the
back of the neck. And you can do this for about 30 seconds, or you could do 3 sets of 10 seconds.
Now, if you find one side of your neck is tighter than the other, or the headache is, feels like
it's stemming from one side of the other, the same movement, but we're just gonna tilt
to the opposite direction. So if it's tight on your right, we're going to
rotate and tilt to the opposite side. So if it's tight on this side or your headaches on this side,
we are going to tilt and stretch. And we're gonna stretch up. If it's the opposite side,
we going to do the same thing. We're gonna tilt, rotate. And up. Immediately following the stretch,
we're going to go right to a nice gentle traction while we're doing some acupressure points.
Take a pillowcase, fold it in half and I'm going to roll it. And depending on the size of your
neck, you might need to get a little bit thicker pillowcase, or you can just fold it in half.
My neck isn't that big so we're going to use this. We're going to lay this down like this.
And we're going to keep our knees bent for this place, this in the middle part of your neck, just,
actually, I do need to fold this in half just to get and promote that natural curve. Ah,
there we go much better. And you're going to keep your knees bent to keep the pressure off
your lower back. But while we're sitting here, we want to externally rotate the shoulders to get
the shoulders in good posture. But while we're doing this, we're going to use some acupressure
at the same time. While we're laying here for 60 seconds, we're going to massage this area
just between the thumb and the index finger. And you can go back and forth for 15 seconds
on each side while you're in this nice, relaxed position with your shoulders back. And then we're
going to change to gallbladder or the temporalis. We're going to come above our ears, about 2
centimeters. And again, we're just going to kind of either sustain pressure at the acupressure
point, or you can just do some gentle circular massage. And this will be for another 30 seconds.
It's a really relaxing position should be thinking, breathing through your belly,
relaxed, try to get all the stress out of your head while you're doing this.
And I know that you feel relaxed and your headache should start to dissipate. Now I
recommend you moving through this process the moment you feel you have a headache coming on
and for some of you for stubborn headaches, you might need to go through this process
two to three times, but you should notice after the first two minutes,
some immediate relief. If you liked that video and found it helpful, please hit the thumbs up. If you
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