Tension Headaches
By Stopmusclepain
Tension headaches due to muscle tightness will be the only type of that will be in our discussion here. You must consult your physician to find out the cause of headaches before attributing it to just increased muscle tension. Headaches may be a sign of many ominous problems.
Muscle tension headaches can aggravate vascular headaches such as migraines. Relieving the muscle tension type of can help to reduce the intensity, duration, interval between the vascular headaches.
There are a lot of muscles which attach to the skull that when shortened and in spasm can put a traction effect on the skull bone giving rise to headaches. Pain in the back of the neck from muscle spasms can go up the back and top of the head as well as the sides of the head. It may be severe enough to cause nausea and vomiting.
The muscles most responsible for tension headaches are the trapezius, levator scapulae, splenius cervices, sternocleidomastoid and the small and short muscles that arise from the neck to attach to the head. These muscles are commonly injured with whiplash, falls or lifting injuries. Usually, the force of the same injury that injures the nerves going to these muscles that initiate or aggravate the headaches will also simultaneously injure other spinal nerve roots in the neck, mid-back and low back. Therefore treating just the neck muscles and other muscles mentioned above will not address the problem well.
The trapezius muscles and other muscles mentioned above are not meant for lifting activities. The strong muscles necessary for efficient lifting are the latissimus dorsi, deltoid, triceps, middle back, lower back, pelvic girdle and thigh muscles. If these muscles are weak, tight, or inefficient, you will continue using a shoulder shrug to lift. This will continue to injure all the muscles responsible for tension headaches. Therefore, treatment of tension headaches can never be isolated to treating

just the muscles in the local area of the head and neck.
The treatments for muscle tension headaches must address also the muscles along the entire spine and all the large and powerful muscles of the upper and lower limbs.
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