WHAT CAUSES HEADACHE ?BACK OF HEAD HEADACHE(Keywords: WHAT CAUSES HEADACHE, chiropractic help, one sided headache, back of head headache, migraine headache, TMJ ear pain, stiff neck exercises for neck pain)WHAT CAUSES HEADACHE is not an easy question to answers as there are multiple causes. So this is not an exhaustive treatise on the subject. For that I would have to write a book! But ... Some 80% of headaches are reckoned to be 'tension headache'. This is not from stress / tension, but tension of the meninges surrounding the neck and brain.
So anything that stretches the meninges - like whiplash - or causes that muscle to spasm, will directly give you a back of head headache. See these tiny muscles at the top of your neck - one of them, never mind which, is directly connected to those meninges. That's exactly what they start to say when you've been sitting too long at the computer - just like mine are saying right now! - or behind the wheel of the car. I'ts time to move! they are trying to tell us. So move.
STIFF NECK EXERCISES FOR NECK PAIN AND HEADACHE.
 Custom Search You may be interested in some of the anatomy of this area if you are a headache sufferer. This is called an oblique X-ray, showing where the nerves emerge from tiny gaps between the vertebrae called a foramen, pleural foramena. Latin! Two nerves, the Greater and Lesser Occipital nerves emerge from the upper foramena and supply the scalp. See if you can trace the Greater from where it emerges from the spine, and that handsome dude will tell you where the headache is likely to be.
ATLANTO OCCIPITAL JOINT ... CERVICAL FACET SYNDROME ...
So you take a break too. I'll be waiting for you when your tea is made, not going anywhere, promise! I'm making mine just with some very weak black (this time, green is better scientists tell us) in a thermos of boiled drinking water, to which I'm going to add a good squeeze from a grapefruit that I've just cut. Keep it natural! The rest I'll eat for breakfast. Don't forget the pulp, that's where the flavonoids are. None of that stuff from a carton!
DRINKING WATER for a nice cup of tea ... A little diversion ...If you're a black or green tea lover like I am, you may know (perhaps you don't) that teabag tea tastes crap, excuse the vocab, in comparison with loose tea. I always used to think it was the bag, but no. I'm treating a Lipton man right now, from the Dutch factory, and he tells me that process it in quite a different way. A crap way, sorry if you're a tea bag man or woman. It's worth the effort of dealing with the tea leaves.So, done. Finished with my little hobby horse. Got your tea? Let's continue ... A malfunctioning TMJ, the jaw joint, is one of the main causes of terrible migraine headache. Not every chiropractor I'm afraid will have the knowledge and expertise to treat this, but it's one of my favourite conditions. Chiropractors can and should treat every joint in the body, except those between the ossicles in the inner ear!
TMJ ear pain ... MENINGITIS ... I could go on and on. What causes headache is complex subject eyesight, brain tumours, toxemia of pregnancy, just the flu, but this page is long enough. Tra-la! Oh, I nearly forgot, Twit! Is there neck pain treatment for your headaches. Of course! And an interesting What causes Headaches Casefile. Does arthritis of the neck cause headache? It can be very misleading.
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