If you’ve been suffering from chronic headaches, have you tried taking medication or visiting a massage therapist to improve blood circulation?
When headaches occur, it can be difficult to move or think clearly, which can be painful, but as you take more medication, your body adapts and becomes less responsive to it. Even when you visit a massage therapist, the relief is often temporary, which you may already know.
Also, taking excessive amounts of medication can lead to autonomic nerve dysfunction and reduced organ function, causing long-lasting health issues that don’t improve. Receiving treatments from unqualified individuals may also cause muscle tension, increasing the frequency of headaches.
When a headache strikes, it can disrupt your life, and you probably just want to get through the immediate discomfort. However, if treated appropriately, headaches—even those that have been chronic for years—can improve, so there’s no need to worry.
In fact, we are often surprised when we perform tests. Even slender women may experience muscle tension that feels like iron, so hard that it bounces back when pressed with a finger.
The stiffness of the muscles and poor blood flow are proportional, so you can imagine how much chronic circulatory disorder has been affecting the body.
Headache locations (temples, temporal region, occipital region, frontal region, behind the eyes)
Triggered by changes in air pressure or stress
Occurs after maintaining the same posture or viewpoint for over an hour
Accompanied by shoulder or neck tension
For those who experience “chronic headaches,” there are always two contributing factors: skeletal and autonomic nervous system factors.
Muscle tension triggers a warning signal to the body, and the autonomic nervous system, as the body’s regulator, forces the body to rest by constricting blood vessels.
Your pain is related to the function of blood vessels.
Headaches like migraines, which are caused by the dilation of blood vessels and compression of nerves due to autonomic nervous system disturbances, or tension headaches triggered by conditions like forward head posture or severe shoulder stiffness, have different causes even though they manifest as the same type of headache.
Headaches are also easily affected by changes in air pressure and stress, and they are symptoms caused by a combination of autonomic nervous system issues, muscle tension, and postural imbalances. By restoring the normal function of the body’s skeleton and surrounding muscle blood vessels, we can address the root causes of headaches and improve the symptoms.