Element Balance Massage Therapy

11/02/2025

09/24/2025

Tension Headache.
Tension Head Ache is a Muscle-contraction-type headache.
Symptom
* The figure suggest 63 percent of men and 86 percent of women experience them.
* The pain is bilateral (Both sides) Cervicogenic and Spinally mediated headaches may have associated neck and shoulder pain
* Variable frequencies
* IN most cases the onset (stars) in the later afternoon.
* Associated symptoms are muscle tenderness and stiffness. Hypertonicity (tightness ) in the affected muscle and can cause loss of appetite.
* Factors that aggravates : - STRESS, FATIGUE, COLD, HYPOGLYCEMIA, POOR POSTURE AND REDUCED RANGE OF MOTION OF THE HEAD AND NECK.
Does Massage Therapy helps. YES, if there is no underlying pathology (ies) and the cause of the headache is muscle tension and trigger points.
reference: the physio movement
clinical massage therapy by Fiona Rattray and Linda Ludwig.