Have you ever had nausea so bad that you wish you could just throw up and get it over with? Well for chronic migraine sufferers, this is a common feeling during the headache stage of the migraine process. The pain, which is unilateral and pounding in nature, causes the body to react with nausea, vomiting, dizziness and the loss of concentration, focus and even motor skills. If you never gone through these symptoms, there is nothing you can say to comfort the migraine sufferer who has; the pains are unspeakable and most want to curl up in the fetal position and die. Smashing your head in with a hammer might feel a little better than migraine head pain; of course, then you’d be dead which kind of defeats the purpose.
How It Continues
A migraine headache is caused by an enlargement of blood vessels that creates a series of chemicals to be released and attack arteries in the brain. Once the chemicals have been released to wreak their havoc, the enlarging of the arteries begins to send painful symptoms that only magnifies until the arteries have stopped expanding or migraine relief has been found. Migraines inflict more than twenty million people causing the family unit to suffer.
Massage Therapy Can Beat Your Headache
When you hear the word massage, many of you will think of a deep tissue or Swedish massage. However, what many Swedes don’t know is that a deep tissue massage will many times cause a migraine rather than affecting a change in your current migraine pattern. Don’t use deep tissue as part of your migraine treatment plan. You see, one of the triggers for the onset of a migraine is tension in the neck and back muscles. Instead of focusing on large muscle groups though, it has been determined that effective results can be seen if your smaller muscles located along the spine are given attention. These muscles, also known as sub occipital muscles, are obscure to most people that you almost need a professional to even point them out. Massage therapists will take the upper neck muscle, which is as long as the tip your thumb and connects the base of the skull with the C-1 vertebrae, and use specialized methods to relieve the tension, thus minimizing the intensity and frequency of the migraine. Many therapeutic massages will not only use these touch techniques, but will supplement them with heat or even add a scent of lavender or peppermint to the room. All of these migraine treatments will help to “beat” your migraine.
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