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Migraines and Head and
Neck Pain |
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 Headaches Have a Neck Component
Ask
a person who has chronic
headaches-any kind of
headache-from
migraines,
tension, muscular, to cluster headaches-they will inevitably say that either
before, during, or after the headache they experienced
neck pain. What most
people do not realize is that the
ligaments in the neck refer pain to the head.
This is the reason why most headaches have a neck component. |
CERVICAL 'RADICULOPATHY'
About once every two weeks a patient comes in worried because they
believe they have a pinched nerve in the neck. Typically they have had
an MRI which some some degenerative arthritis and degenerated discs in
the neck and they have tingling in the arm and hand. So is this cervical radiculopathy or is this just a referral
ligament pain pattern from the upper thoracic area. How do you tell? |
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Torticollis
"Please help me. I don’t
know what happened but now I’m stuck in a position where my head always faces
to the right. It interrupts my
sleep and has made my life miserable. The doctors
have done lots of tests and say my problem is in my head. Can you help?" Sincerely, Mrs. Turned to the Right |
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Migraines and Prolotherapy
Current traditional drugs for migraine
headaches, such as
Ergotamine,
Fiorinal,
Codeine, and the other medications, provide only temporary relief. The patient dependent on these drugs for headache relief lives in fear of the next migraine attack. Patients describe their migraine headaches as similar to having one half of their head hit repeatedly with a baseball bat. |
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Prolotherapy,
BOTOX®, and Headaches
Modern medicine has resorted to injecting a known toxin into the muscles of the
face/neck/head to help patients get rid of
headaches. Their headaches may
diminish but the paralysis caused by the botulism toxin weakens the muscles. One
fact I can say for certain is that chronic headaches are not a botulism (BOTOX®)
deficiency. The botulinum toxin is very expensive, and provides only temporary
results. |
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Three Types of Headaches
The symptoms of
headaches are so
prevalent that many physicians dismiss headache patients and label them
as emotional or stressed out, which leaves them in even more despair.
A good example of this is Marion, who started getting migraine headaches
shortly after marrying me! On her one and only visit to the HMO physician, she
received a quickly scribbled out prescription for Propranolol, though he
wanted to give her an antidepressant.
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TMJ Syndrome and Prolotherapy
A commonly forgotten
area in regards to
headache and
neck pain is the temporomandibular joint. The
temporomandibular joint (TMJ) is the physical connection where the jaw meets the
skull. The TMJ is needed to keep the jaw in proper alignment, especially when
talking and eating. A painful and clicking TMJ is called Temporomandibular Joint
Syndrome (TMJS). TMJS symptoms are very similar to those of Barre-Lieou
Syndrome. The symptoms, such as dizziness and vertigo, that physicians ascribe
to the TMJS, may actually be due to Barre-Lieou Syndrome. |
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Barre-Lieou
Syndrome
Early
in his
Prolotherapy
practice, back in the 1950s, Dr.
Gustav Hemwall noted some
interesting phenomena occurring after
Prolotherapy injections. His patients'
neck pain and
headaches were relieved with Prolotherapy and to his surprise
their dizziness, headaches, nausea, blurred vision, and
tinnitus (ringing in
the ears) were also alleviated. A few patients even experienced
improvements in their vision after receiving Prolotherapy
injections to their neck and to back of their head. |
PROLOTHERAPY AN ALTERNATIVE TO NECK SURGERY
I recently saw a patient who had suffered for at least ten years
with
neck pain
and was told it was time to consider surgery. The
doctor (surgeon) wanted to do a multi-level fusion, but the patient
wanted to look at alternatives including
Prolotherapy.
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