When you google or search for "Migraine",
there are more than 100 categories for migraine.
At the end, we also don't know what causes migraine?

If we don't know what causes migraine, how we gonna treat migraine Effectively?

Don't worry.
Benphysio can treat migraine
very well.

Because we classify migraine into
3 categories ONLY,
simple & effective.

Via our unique assessment,
add on with our
effective manual therapy,
we hope can win against your migraine;
on top of that,
we teach you how to manage your stiffness
throughout your busy schedule.

Migraine and headache are TREATABLE.
You don't need to live with it.

Bottom, we gonna teach you the
3 categories
of migraine / headache.

Check with your physiotherapists.
Get it done!!!

Redeem Migraine ASSESSMENT

cause 1:

Ball & Socket joint misalignment
migraine / headache can be due to dominant hand,
overused / overwork chest muscles,
dislodged the humerus bone from socket,

tension built up on Supraspinatus
muscle, top of the shoulder

which is important muscle to hold the Ball bone against gravity

then, tension radiates to
Scalene muscle
around the side of the neck,
you will feel tender when pressing on it

Gradually, all tension will leads to
temporal migraine / headache
also may characterised by ringing ears, jaw locked / jaw pain, eye socket pain

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Cause 2:

Rounded shoulder can lead to migraine,
when Levator scapulae muscle stiffens,
when shoulder blade is misaligned,

due to stiffness of deep chest muscles -
pectoralis minor
and Short Head Biceps (SHB)

similar symptoms,
you may suffer morning neck stiffness when wake up,
due to stiff / spasm Levator Scapule muscle

Levator scapule attached to C1 C2 C3 C4
spasm of this muscle leads to neck rotation problem
also, may appear with giddiness, but not vertigo

this category problem usually causes 
temporal & occipital migraine

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cause 3:

If you often feel migraine / headache
over the base of skull,
runs to front of forehead,

or habitually you like to rub the base of skull
to ease the migraine whenever attack

You are having posture related migraine.
So, your treatment has to begin from posture
from Lumbar spine
to Kyphotic Thoracic spine

Erector Spinae is the
Muscle that attached from sacrum, low lumbar,
to thoracic & skull bone

When Erector Spinae stiffen,
sleep disorders / insomnia,
hunch area pain / discomfort,
indigestion happens.

subsequently, release Erector Spinae,
all the way until the base of skull,
include occipitalis muscle,
which also attached to base of skull.

Stiffness of occipitalis,
radiates to Occipital -Frontalis muscle,
explains the migraine over the forehead,
migraine over the eyebrow as well.

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Other Similar disorders that linked to migraine / headache

Wry Neck / Acute neck pain

Symptoms:

• Wake up in morning with SHARP pain, as shown in picture on left
• Unable to turn the neck, especially during driving

Myth: 
It is not due to the ‘wet pillow’ or ‘wet hair’. It's a problem with your shoulder and neck.
Even in pain, slowly turn towards pain site as an exercise.

Physio Explanation:
When it happens for first time, it can resolve within couple of hours. When it gets severe (recurrent), it takes days to recover.
Do not force to turn to pain site, it will cause more pain then relief.

BENPHYSIO says:
Ice it, while calling us for an appointment.

To your surprise, acute neck pain often attack the non-dominant upper limbs.

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Jaw Pain / Ringing Ears

Symptoms:
As mentioned. Sometimes start with throbbing pain over neck, eyes twitching, ringing in ears, etc (picture below on right).

Physio Explanation:
These symptoms are highly associated with cervical-occipital joint dysfunction as well as postural issue (lordotic posture, rounded shoulder), which leads to head-forwarded posture. In some cases, the shoulder might be the cause for tight neck muscles.
 
BENPHYSIO says:
Migraine and headache are TREATABLE. You don't need to live with it. To get rid off the neck problem, thorough treatment including postural correction is needed.