01/09/2023
Remember!!!
The migraine or headache is just a symptom.
I would LOVE to teach you what exactly happened when you take a drugs for migraine headache and why you feel better.
Our body have computer, we call it brain stem:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6727990/
More specific
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDbWV0EZCAU
more specific 3D picture available here
https://www.healthline.com/health/12-cranial-nerves
The brainstem has integrative functions being involved in cardiovascular system control, respiratory control, pain sensitivity control, alertness, awareness, and consciousness. Thus, brainstem damage is a very serious and often life-threatening problem.
The brainstem is positioned in the back of the head and it look like extension of neck. It is closely related to the spinal cord. The brain stem is a small structure. However, it has many different, important roles in our nervous system and is directly responsible for hundreds of every day, crucial functions our body performs. Its key role is in ensuring the communication between the nerves, the spinal cord, our body, and our brain.
That’s why any injury of the brain stem can lead to serious consequences, including death. Lesions, infections, physical injuries, and strokes that affect the parts of the brain stem structures can lead to speech impairment, coma, vegetative states, paralysis, or memory loss.
In pain department BRAIN STEM control all cranial nerves and it telling us where the pain is but not where pain coming from. So when we feel a pain in head it is not coming from brain as brain has no pain receptors. 95% of any kind of pain in head such as migraine-tension-cluster-hormonal headaches coming from upper body especially in upper neck. Any you don’t have to have neck pain.
Real treatment
One of the best benefits of turning to osteopathic manual therapy, manual physical therapy or chiropractic treatments over medication is that the medication does not treat cause of headaches and manual therapy does. It’s noninvasive and it doesn’t require you to put anything foreign into your body. Medication, while it certainly has its place, BUT it just desensitizes brain stem and your head feels better the body getting in more trouble so after a while you will need higher dose or stronger pain killers. I hear this story every day in my office for last 29 years. But with therapy there is no side effects, mostlikly you will have immediate relief as well as reduce pain in the future, and for sure your spine will be much heathier, it may prevent vascular dementia, prevent future headaches and much more…
Remember always treat cause of headache or pain not symptoms only.
The brainstem is known to be an important brain area for nociception and pain processing, and both relaying and coordinating signaling between the cerebrum, cerebellum, and spinal cord. Although preclinical models of pain have characterized the many roles ...
