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Head and Neck Pain
Headaches Have a Neck
Component
Ask a person who has chronic
headaches-any kind of
headache-from migraines, tension, muscular, to cluster
headaches-they will inevitably say that either before, during, or after
the headache they experienced
neck pain. What most people do not
realize is that the
ligaments in the neck refer pain to
the head. This is the reason why most headaches have a neck component.
 CERVICAL
'RADICULOPATHY'
About once every two weeks a
patient comes in worried because they believe they have a pinched nerve
in the neck. Typically they have had an MRI which some some degenerative
arthritis and degenerated discs in the neck and they have tingling in
the arm and hand. So is this cervical radiculopathy or is this just a
referral ligament pain pattern from the upper thoracic area. How do you
tell?
Torticollis
"Please help me. I don’t know what happened but now I’m stuck in a
position where my head always faces to the right. It interrupts my
sleep and has made my life miserable. The doctors have done lots of
tests and say my problem is in my head. Can you help?" Sincerely,
Mrs. Turned to the Right
Migraines and Prolotherapy
Current traditional drugs for migraine
headaches,
such as Ergotamine, Fiorinal, Codeine, and the other medications,
provide only temporary relief.
Prolotherapy, BOTOX®, and Headaches
Modern medicine has resorted to
injecting a known toxin into the muscles of the face/neck/head to help
patients get rid of headaches. Their headaches may diminish but
the paralysis caused by the botulism toxin weakens the muscles.
Three Types of Headaches
The
symptoms of headaches
are so prevalent that many physicians dismiss headache patients and
label them as emotional or stressed out, which leaves them in even
more despair. A good example of this is Marion, who started getting
migraine headaches shortly after marrying me! On her one and only visit
to the HMO physician, she received a quickly scribbled out prescription
for Propranolol, though he wanted to give her an antidepressant.
TMJ Syndrome and Prolotherapy
A commonly forgotten area in regards to
headache
and
neck pain is the temporomandibular
joint. The temporomandibular joint (TMJ) is the physical connection
where the jaw meets the skull.
Barre-Lieou Syndrome
Early in his
Prolotherapy practice, back in the
1950s, Dr.
Gustav Hemwall
noted some interesting phenomena occurring after Prolotherapy
injections. His patients'
neck pain and headaches were
relieved with Prolotherapy and to his surprise their dizziness,
headaches, nausea, blurred vision, and tinnitus (ringing in the ears)
were also alleviated.
PROLOTHERAPY AN ALTERNATIVE TO NECK
SURGERY
I recently saw a patient who had suffered for at least ten years with
neck pain
and was told it was time to consider surgery. The doctor (surgeon)
wanted to do a multi-level fusion, but the patient wanted to look at
alternatives including
Prolotherapy.
Trigeminal neuralgia symptoms
Trigeminal neuralgia (TN), also
known as tic douloureux, is a pain syndrome recognizable by the
patient's history alone. The condition is characterized by pain often
accompanied by a brief facial spasm or tic.
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Tinnitus, Neck Stiffness
OS, a 52 year old male, first
came to Caring Medical in April of 2007. He was suffering with
tinnitus for the last four
years. His “buzzing” in the ears was accompanied by neck stiffness. This
all began after a period of professional and personal stress, and he
remembers sleeping in an awkward position around the same time. OS
intermittently had chiropractic
adjustments which would lessen the severity of his symptoms for a
time, but they would never completely go away. Caffeine would worsen his
condition.
Prolotherapy, Neural Therapy and
Diet Typing
PP, a 35-year old male opera singer, came from out of the country to
Caring Medical seeking help
for bilateral
jaw pain
which extended from the styloid processes of the skull near the ears
down his jaw and into the neck.
BURNING MOUTH SYNDROME
If your tongue feels like it is
on fire and all your tests come back negative you are probably going to
be diagnosed with burning mouth syndrome (BMS). While this can be the
only symptom, in cases that have come to me for an evaluation I usually
find other symptomology which lends support to the fact that BMS can be
one of the manifestations of Barre-Lieou
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