What’s The Best Sleep Position For Headaches?

What’s The Best Sleep Position For Headaches?

Do you wake up with headaches when you sleep on your stomach? Here’s why: Headaches can be caused by tension in the neck. This limits the amount of rotation for the head and increases stress through the neck when the head is rotated. Stomach sleepers naturally sleep...
How to Address Your Migraine Trigger

How to Address Your Migraine Trigger

Migraine Triggers come in all shapes and sizes. I have not had any two patients, to my knowledge, that have presented with the same symptoms and triggers. There are two components to addressing a migraine trigger: 1) Journal: take note of when your migraine occurs....
Medication Overuse & Headaches

Medication Overuse & Headaches

“About half of people with chronic headache also has medication overuse.” In 2009 30,000 persons aged 30-44 were interviewed. Those with self-reported chronic headache were invited to be interviewed by a neurology resident. What they found: The majority of those with...
What Does An MRI Give Us?

What Does An MRI Give Us?

Brief medical jargon followed by an easily understood translation. “The site of cervigogenic headache (CEH) headache pain was not correlated with the site of signal intensity changes of the alar and transverse ligaments. In fact, very few had moderate or severe...