
Migraine Headaches Support Group
Migraine is a neurological disease, of which the most common symptom is an intense and disabling episodic headache. Migraine headaches are usually characterized by severe pain on one or both sides of the head and are often accompanied by photophobia (hypersensitivity to light), phonophobia (hypersensitivity to sound) and nausea.
She says I'll need a lot of work because of the duration of the problem. Which could be just someone trying to line their pockets (I'm a skeptic, can you tell?) but makes sense too...because this is ten years of muscles pulling the wrong way.
A lot of the people who do it are Osteopaths, so if you can't find a physical therapist who does it - you might try and find an osteopath who can.
The goal of myofascial release is a gentle massage that returns the pattern to its original state. So, we're not pulling the fascia from the muscle. We're pulling and stretching the fascia gently so that it resumes its loose weave, rather than imposing any restrictions on blood vessels or nerves.
I thought the Myofascial Release was really, really helping today - and possibly it was and the weather was just interfering. But she also hooked me up to a giant oversized TENS Unit. TENS on Crack. And that kept the pain gateway all confused, so I think that's more where my relief came from this time.
The drawing up the shoulders towards the ears has always been a pure pain response for me, never related to stress. It has just been that I've been in pain so often that everything has tended to stray that way.
The first PT I went to said I should look into a theracane, but the prices in the catalog were pretty outrageous for us. Seeing as I do have the internet, though, and I don't know why I didn't think of this before - I can probably find an outlet with a lower price.
And I've been reading about people pairing Baclofen (NSAID) with Flexeril in newer headache studies. I'm probably going to ask my doctor about that, but we might switch to Soma.
Thank you for the info! :)