At Healing Hands Myotherapy and Remedial Massage we regularly see clients for treatment of tension headaches and migraines.
Tension headaches and migraines are a common and debilitating condition that affect many of us every year. These often debilitating issues can be caused by several factors relating to nerves or blood vessels surrounding the skull or the muscles of your head and neck. Migraines and headaches can be brought on by a number of different factors such as:
Jaw Clenching
Intense Work
Missed Meals
Depression
Anxiety
Lack of sleep
Sleep apnoea
Symptoms are varied but can include dull, aching head pain, sensation of tightness of sides and back of the skull, mild/moderate or intense pain behind the eyes or tenderness of the scalp, neck and shoulders.
Regular massage therapy can help treat these types of headaches by increasing blood flow to areas of sustained contraction in the neck and shoulders by releasing overly tight head, neck and shoulder muscles through trigger point therapy and stretching exercises. Massage can potentially provide a functional, non-pharmacological intervention for reducing the incidence of chronic tension headaches.
Research has shown that regular massage therapy can help chronic tension in headache sufferers by:
reducing depression/anxiety
decreasing pain
decreasing anger status
decreasing tension
reducing frequency
reducing intensity
reducing duration
decreasing medication usage
increasing cervical range of motion
improved sleep pattern
If you or a family member suffer from tension headaches or migraines, come in and talk to the team At Healing Hands Myotherapy and Remedial Massage today. We’d love to show you how massage can play a big part in relieving and reducing tension headaches and migraines.