Story of You - It's What You Think
Over the past few weeks, The Story of Stress clarified the science of how bodies physically respond to stressful events and how accommodating to that puts pressure on…
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Writing on chronic migraine and tension headaches — what causes them, why they get worse, and what you can do about them.
The Story of Stress - Chapter 5 - Headache Type Doesn't Matter
Chapter 4 gave you insight into muscle physiology and the myofascial syndrome. We’ve shared that it’s a persistent over-active stress response that compromises muscles…
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Story of Stress - Chapter 4 - No Matter the Headache…It’s Muscles
Chapter 3, introduced how you accommodate to the affects of stress and are unaware of its contribution to ongoing headaches. As explained in previous chapters, when a…
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Story of Stress - Chapter 3 - "Getting Used to It"
In Chapter 2 we talked about habits, how they are formed and how they have an essential role in creating your headaches.
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Story of Stress - Chapter 2 - How Headaches Become Habits
Chapter 1, Stress Happens…was about how important the Autonomic Nervous system (ANS) is to the stress response. Habits are another factor in how your headaches, once…
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Story of Stress - Chapter 1 - Stress Happens...
Do you hear lots of confusing stories about your headaches, what’s causing them, why they don’t respond well to medication and why they are impossible to prevent?
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Clenching, Grinding, Bruxing...Fancy Names for a Bad Habit
Can you remember a scene at the movies when the camera goes in for a close-up on the gangster’s face during a tense moment and you see his jaw muscles pulsing and…
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Stressors Not Triggers
When presented with a real or perceived threat to our survival, the autonomic nervous system responds to the event with an alarm reaction. This is the Famous Fight,…
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Medicine Doesn't Work
What it means when your doctor says there’s nothing wrong even though you have severe headaches.
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Why Doesn’t Botox Cure Headaches?
As biofeedback therapists, we spent many years in private practice training people with chronic migraine and tension headaches how to eliminate and prevent them. We…
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Stress...Friend or Foe?
Stress is unavoidable. No one can live a stress-free life. Nor would that be desirable. ‘Good’ stress or more to the point, ‘optimum’ stress, is necessary for healthy…
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Biofeedback Reveals Muscle Tension
Most people have no experience with biofeedback which is unfortunate. Unlike many tests your doctor performs when you have chronic headaches it is not to rule out a…
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Shift Control of Headache Management
If you are like most of the typical chronic headache sufferers we know, you have endured countless trials of medication, been fitted with numerous and costly splints,…
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