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- Brad Heineck, physical therapist
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- Is it a tension headache or possible brain cancer?
This is a simple 20 second test.
I know this sounds really ominous,
but apparently a lot of people when they search headaches,
they also put in: question, brain cancer?
So this is, I'm taking this right off a Dr. Oz Show.
- Sure
- I'm saying it exactly like he's saying it
because I don't wanna mislead people
and get people scared when they don't need to be.
- Right, right
- So I'm gonna say it exactly how he said it
when we discussed this test, you happy with that?
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Again as I mentioned, I saw this on Dr. Oz
and the simple test is, what the idea is that if you have
brain cancer or a tumor, generally you're gonna have
swelling in the brain.
And with swelling in the brain, if you lean forward,
come on let's try it, all you're gonna do is
lean forward like this.
What that's gonna do is increase the pressure
and it'll increase your pain.
So if your headache actually gets worse,
he said, I'm gonna say it exactly like he said,
may be something important is going on.
So you may wanna get it checked out.
If not, if it doesn't increase with this,
most likely it's a tension headache.
- So it's not a test that clearly indicates
this or that?
- No, not by any means.
- It just give you some idea.
It's one of those screening tests.
- Right, if you do get the increased pressure,
and I don't know if that pertains to migraines either
'cause if it was a migraine I could see a migraine
maybe getting worse by learning forward like that.
- Because it's a vascular cause.
- Vascular, right.
So we're talking about tension headaches
versus brain cancer.
If you have a migraine generally you know it
because you have all the sensitivity to light
and you kinda know it's coming on and all that.
- Have a history of it.
- Right, so alright, we're not gonna just
leave you at that though.
We wanna help you if you do have a tension headache.
A lot of people get these throughout the day, very common.
Lot of tension up in the muscles here.
So the first thing we're gonna try is actually
just doing massage, right at the base of your neck.
And I hope, my microphone out of the way here kinda?
- There you go, yup.
- So you probably can't hear me now, but anyway,
a lot of this stress occurs right here
at the base of the neck.
So you can do little circles like this
and it's amazing how this can make a big difference.
Especially if you start to feel a headache coming on
and get to it before it gets too far along.
But you do this little circles along the base
of the neck there.
- So it's right where the neck muscles
connect to the skull, the bone right there.
- Right exactly.
- And when you get that area, there's trigger points.
And when they release, everything else,
and you got nerves, occipital nerves, that go from
here and up over the head and that's why
a lot of times you get these headaches
that seem to...
- Come around the head
- Right, over the head, one side or the other,
cause there's one nerve on each side.
- That's the greater occipital nerve.
It comes out C2 and C1 I believe.
It comes out in the upper cervical spine.
And so you can do the circles, but you can also do
what we call splay massage.
So you start with your two fingers together,
and you pull 'em apart like this.
And again, I'm doing a fair amount of pushing here.
- You probably can't see it there,
but here's actually making the skin a little red.
It's increasing the blood flow
is what that's telling me.
- So circles and splaying and good posture
while you're doing this.
The second one is, and this is one you can do
throughout the day, 'cause this is what often
is causing your headache, is this forward head posture.
Which we all drift into when working at the computer
or we're looking at our phones.
- We're gonna do video coming up in a week or two
on how to correct this as well.
- Excellent, so right now, one thing we're gonna recommend
is that you do some chin tucks.
So you're gonna go ahead, and Brad's gonna show it
from that direction, but you're bringing your chin
back like this.
You're not tipping down, you're not tipping up,
you're just going back like this.
And I've had people, Brad I had one girl in particular,
that she was getting tension headaches.
I just had her do this in the car, it's safe,
you still can see traffic.
But it is a great place to do it,
'cause what else you gonna do?
- Right, better than texting.
- Yep and even in the car sometimes people
start drifting like this.
- A lot of times.
- So it does two things, it stretches out the neck
but it also corrects your posture.
- Right, right
- It puts you back in alignment.
- I was giving a talk in front of a group of people
and I said anybody here have a headache?
I was kinda rolling the dice on this,
and someone did, and she came up in front of everyone,
and I had her do this stretch,
and she did it for 30 seconds or so.
She stopped and she thought, she says,
"My headache's gone, I can't believe it!"
- You got lucky on that one.
- Well I was rolling the dice,
but it worked well.
- A lot of time I find once it's fired up,
even when you do these, it might feel a little
better but it doesn't take it away.
To me, it prevents 'em better than it takes 'em away.
- Well I've had that more than once.
Not in front of a group of people, but I mean,
I've had people do that, but not always, but sometimes.
- You're a hypnotist apparently.
- Well, naturally.
- So the last thing we can do is,
you actually want to do some strengthening
so that if you strengthen the upper trapeze
and all the muscles that pull you back into good posture,
you're gonna be less likely to get into
those tension headaches because you're not gonna be
in that forward head posture.
So we're gonna do some strengthening here.
I'm gonna do it on here, Brad.
- Oh, yeah.
- You wanna maybe give me a rolled towel?
- I'll give you something, alright.
Here, here's your rolled towel.
- Boy, I just asked for one little thing.
So why don't you show what directions
I'm going here, Brad.
So I'm gonna first start with the Y
and I'm just taking my body into the Y like this.
And you can do 1-2-3-4-5, 1-2-3-4-5, 1-2-3-4-5.
Are you doing it?
- Oh, you want me to do it.
He's like this.
Yeah, I was daydreaming, Bob.
It's been a long week.
- So then how 'bout the T?
1-2-3-4-5
and you could do a good set of 15 of these.
- We're gonna get a camera and mount that at the top
going down so that I don't have to do this.
- Alright, and then the reverse Y, Brad.
- Yep, then down this way.
So your palms are down towards the floor.
- I'm just keeping my palms down right now.
You can do thumbs up if you want.
You can do variations of it.
- You can also, and you can do this standing.
I'm getting some benefits I can feel it standing.
That has gravity so it's a little more aggressive.
- Yeah gimme the booyah stick real quick,
I'll just show one with the booyah stick.
- I'll give you the booyah stick alright.
- Booyah!
So one that I like to do is actually,
get yourself in good posture, so everything's all lined up.
I got, the stick is hitting my head,
it's hitting my mid-back, it's hitting my sacrum.
I'm all lined up now, and then in this position,
I go ahead and do some of these.
I bring it up, and now I got good posture
and I'm working my back and my upper back
at the same time.
- If you happen to be in the midst of a back ache
or something this my irritate it.
In that case you may wanna skip that.
- I feel like I'm going right into good posture, Brad.
- You well you definitely, and that's good
for muscle memory so that your body starts
to realize that this is where it's supposed to be.
- Yeah, when I do activities later now,
hopefully my mind remembers that,
my body remembers that and I go into
the correct position.
- These are kind of things that athletes
are very familiar with, that athletic stance.
- Muscle memory, yep.
- And repetition.
- Alright, booyah, Brad.
- Oh, we're still going, sorry about that Bob.
- Thanks everybody for watching.