At last… PhD completed! This has been brewing for 25 years… life’s ongoing journey! In the early nineties, the clinical phenomenon of reproducing and resolution of typical head pain when examining O-C3 spinal segmental movements intrigued me. I was sustaining techniques because I thought I needed to remodel soft tissue, but research indicates that it
An Underlying Disorder What else can I say but… there are those who are innately intuitive. Considering the cause of headache and migraine, I have just come across a gentleman(1) who in 1888 described the migraine process in this way: “… we must not ascribe too much significance to throbbing of the increase in the
Some Menstrual Migraine Facts Migraine is the second most common headache condition next to Tension-type Headache. Up to one fourth of all women have migraine, and of those, 60% experience migraine without aura episodes in at least two thirds of their menstrual cycles. Menstrual Migraine is in the top five disabling conditions for women and
Why Treatment Often Fails Several authorities recently summarised the reasons why headache and migraine treatment often fails. Amongst other things, they suggested that the diagnosis is incomplete or incorrect and that this could occur for various reasons. One of the reasons is ‘misdiagnosis’. I have mentioned this research before but diagnosing headache and migraine is like
Are They Presentations of a Common Disorder? Many patients present with dizziness as their only symptom. Whilst they are grateful they do not have to endure the awful pain of migraine or headache, significant dizziness can be disabling… and of course dizziness is another symptom that many with headache and migraine experience. Many of those patients in
Decreases Migraine Progression Recent evidence suggests that migraine is a progressive condition in which over time, episodes become more frequent, more severe, less responsive to medication, and last longer. Research has shown that by (surgically) treating/removing disorders (which were evident on an MRI scan) in the upper cervical (neck) decreased the long-term worsening of the
