About my headache today - Mike

March 19, 2004

Well, I was able to keep the pain away from my head using the

modalities you recommended. However, the pain travelled down my

superficial spinal muscles - but I'll take it there any day. Right

now it hurts at the base of my skull and to the right and down the

middle of my back and to the right.

I think the origin of the headaches is muscle imbalance since most of

the headache pain can be traced to trigger points and muscle spasms

during the headache - and even after.

I'm continuing to do research regarding how to overcome it.

One intersting thing I thought I'd pass on is that after a headache I

usually get what I call an 'imprint' - that is, the pain is gone, but

the painful area is still sore (does that make sense?). It feels

like a bruise and lasts for several hours. I believe what is

happening is that the muscles go into such contraction that they

don't get any oxygen and the lactic acid builds up. Then the body

takes a while to remove the toxic lactic acid - similar to the burn I

used to get when I lifted weights.

I found an article at ChiroWeb that I'm going to take a look at -

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