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Headache Prevention & Migraine Treatment - 101 Tips

Stop Headaches & Migraines With Simple, Yet Effective Pain Management Strategies Without Resorting To Drugs!

Headache Prevention Tip #98.

Measure your migraine. Your migraine can be measure in terms of the following criteria

• Frequency:  How often do you get the migraine?
• Intensity: How severe is the pain? You can measure this yourself using a 5-point scale. 0 stands for no pain at all, while 5 means that you have the worst pain that you have ever had.
• Duration: How long does the pain last. Does it go by itself or you have to get a deep sleep before you get any relief.
• Medication: Do you have to take any medicines before you get any relief from it and if you have to do how many medicines do you take and in what quantity?

Headache Prevention Tip #99.

Here are some more exercises for that tension headache...

You have to understand that the tension headache comes purely from tight cervical and neck muscles. When muscles become tight, what actually happens is that lactic acid gets accumulated in them.

Under ordinary conditions, when a muscle works, glucose gets converted into carbon dioxide and water. The blood easily removes these two waste materials.

But when a muscle has to work for too long or for tow hard the energy demand is too high that the cells do not get time to convert glucose fully into carbon dioxide and water. Instead the glucose is converted into another substance that is lactic acid.

The problem with lactic acid is that it restricts further movement of the muscles and this results in muscular cramps. In such conditions application of a little bit of pressure can help the muscles release the pent up lactic acid. When the cervical and neck muscles get accumulated with lactic acid, it often results in a headache. The exercise that is described below can prove to be very effective.

1. Turn on the shower and direct the flow of the stream of water onto the back of your neck.
2. Now turn your head as if you are trying to see who is behind you.
3. Stand like this for one or two minute.
4. Then repeat the exercise but looking in the opposite side this time.

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