{"id":21940,"date":"2025-09-19T08:15:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T12:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/?p=21940"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:15:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T12:15:30","slug":"exercise-for-headache-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/19\/exercise-for-headache-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise for Headache Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most headaches result from tension. Tension produces pain in the neck and shoulders resulting in constriction of the blood vessels and blood circulation resulting in\u00a0headaches<\/a>. Stress, guilt, fear, anger, depression, and\u00a0rage<\/a>\u00a0are all contributing factors to tension headaches. Underlying health problems can also result in\u00a0headaches<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Everything from sinusitis to nutritional imbalance, spinal misalignment to\u00a0PMS<\/a>,\u00a0poor circulation<\/a>\u00a0to TMJ are all culprits. Food\u00a0allergies<\/a>\u00a0and additives, cigarette smoke, air pollutants, poor ventilation, certain drugs, chemicals, and overexposure to sun are also factors. Proper diagnosis of the particular\u00a0headache<\/a>\u00a0makes treatment much more specific and easier to diagnose.<\/p>\n

Migraines<\/a>\u00a0are the result in an abnormal flow of blood to the brain. Pain can last for several hours to several days.\u00a0Migraines<\/a>\u00a0are frequently related to food and\u00a0environmental<\/a>\u00a0allergies<\/a>. They may also be brought on by\u00a0poor circulation<\/a>, chemical sensitivities, changes in humidity, stress or underlying illness.<\/p>\n

If you get frequent or unusually severe\u00a0headaches<\/a>, medical attention must be sought. Typically,\u00a0migraines<\/a>\u00a0bring severe, one-sided throbbing pain (in 40 percent of cases, however, the pain occurs on both sides). Often this is accompanied by nausea and vomiting and perhaps tremor and dizziness. Some people also experience premigraine warning symptoms, including blurred vision, \u201cfloating\u201d visual images, and numbness in an arm or leg.<\/p>\n

Migraines<\/a>\u00a0Without Aura<\/strong><\/p>\n

This accounts for 85% and presents with pulsating, throbbing, unilateral\u00a0headache<\/a>\u00a0that can last 1 to 2 days and is aggravated by routine physical activity, maybe accompanied by nausea, vomiting, sensitivity to light and sound or visual disturbances such as hallucinations of stars, sparks or flashes of light.<\/p>\n

Migraines<\/a>\u00a0With Aura<\/strong><\/p>\n

This usually has similar symptoms as above but with the additional visual or neurological symptoms that preceed the\u00a0headache<\/a>. The aura seems to deveolp in 5 to 20 minutes and lasts less than an hour.<\/p>\n

Exercises:<\/strong><\/p>\n

With a Tennis Ball, lay on the floor and place the tennis ball under you in the points between and under the shoulder blades. Massage the area by gently rocking over the tennis ball. Move the ball around to different\u00a0trigger points<\/a>\u00a0on your back.<\/p>\n

The trapezius muscles at the base of the neck, at the base of the skull, and even in the dimples of the buttock, for here is where we hold a lot of tension that crawls all the way up the\u00a0spine<\/a>\u00a0to the behind the shoulder blades which in turn burn up to the base of the skull. Let your body relax over the tennis ball until the tension dissolves.<\/p>\n

A simple kinesiology technique can relieve many non-sinus\u00a0headaches<\/a>. The technique works very quickly and is one you do for yourself.<\/p>\n

The Gall Bladder Meridian<\/strong><\/p>\n

This technique works on\u00a0headaches<\/a>\u00a0located anywhere on the upper part of the head \u2014 in the forehead, temples, or down the back of the head and neck. The meridian (energy flow) involved is called the gall bladder meridian. It covers the upper part of the head, then flows down the back of the neck, down the sides of the torso and legs, and eventually ends on the fourth toe of each foot.<\/p>\n

Headaches<\/a>\u00a0are generally caused by a build-up of energy in this meridian \u2014 energy that for some reason gets blocked in the head area. To relieve this blocked condition, you simply have to massage a point further down the meridian to encourage the energy to flow out of the head and neck area.<\/p>\n

This massage point can be found by standing and letting your arms hang loosely at your sides. About where your middle finger touches your thigh (on both sides of the body), you will find a spot that is very tender or even painful to touch when you are having a headache. This spot might be a little above or below, or a little to the front or to the back of the point where your middle finger touches the thigh, but you will find it somewhere close by.<\/p>\n

Technique For a non-migraine<\/a>\u00a0headache<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Massage these spots with as much pressure as is comfortable for 10 seconds, let off for 10 seconds, massage for another 10 seconds, let off for 10 seconds, and massage one more time for 10 seconds.<\/p>\n

Remember to breath slowly and evenly as you massage. You will probably notice by the time you are done massaging that the\u00a0headache<\/a>\u00a0is beginning to go away, and within two or three minutes the\u00a0headache<\/a>\u00a0will disappear completely.<\/p>\n

Technique for a\u00a0migraine<\/a>\u00a0headache<\/strong><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t massage the point on your thigh, but lightly brush it with your finger tips instead. Follow the same pattern of brushing for 10 seconds, staying off for 10 seconds, and so on. Remember to breathe slowly and evenly. Again, relief should come very quickly.<\/p>\n

About the author<\/p>\n

Andrew Pacholyk, MS, L.Ac. \u2013\u00a0Peacefulmind. com<\/a>
\nAlternative medicine and therapies for healing mind, body & spirit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most headaches result from tension. Tension produces pain in the neck and shoulders resulting in constriction of the blood vessels and blood circulation resulting in\u00a0headaches. Stress, guilt, fear, anger, depression, and\u00a0rage\u00a0are all contributing factors to tension headaches. Underlying health problems can also result in\u00a0headaches. Everything from sinusitis to nutritional imbalance, spinal misalignment to\u00a0PMS,\u00a0poor circulation\u00a0to TMJ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-detox-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}