A Headache Remedy Can be Treating Your Shoulder
Author: Julie Donnelly, LMT –The Pain Relief Expert
Editor: Dr. Steve Chaney
When you experience the debilitating effects of headache pain, you just want headache relief.
Your head throbs. It’s hard to think. It’s hard to enjoy life.
What should you do?
- You could take Tylenol or some other drug, but that offers temporary relief at best.
- You could see a chiropractor, but it may take multiple visits to correct your problem.
- You could get a massage, but the headache will probably come back.
What you really want is a natural protocol you can use to make the headache go away whenever it occurs. There is such a protocol. It’s called muscular therapy, and I teach people how to perform it on themselves whenever a headache or joint pain occurs.
What Is The Difference Between Massage And Muscular Therapy?
| There is a difference between massage and muscular therapy as a headache remedy, and both are worthwhile. Massage is great for moving the fluids (like blood and lymph) through your body and getting muscles to relax. It’s perfect if you’re under stress and you feel like you’re going to explode. A good massage therapist can have a positive impact on your nervous system and blood pressure, and you’ll come out walking on air.
Muscular therapy, the way I do it anyway, is more focused than it is general. You’ve heard about spasms, but most people can’t visualize a spasm, so they ignore the term. You probably have an idea that a spasm may be painful, and it isn’t a great thing to have, but what is a spasm? |
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What is a Spasm
 I explain it as a knot in the muscle. Through some very complicated physiology (that none of us need to know about) the muscle forms a knot in the thick part of the muscle, and it’s putting a strain on the two ends.
Both ends are attached to a bone, so the pressure causes a strain on the end points and you have pain at the bone. Most of the time the end points are just after the muscle crosses over a joint, so you end up with joint pain. |
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| Too often people think this is arthritis and they are stuck suffering or taking strong drugs to mask the pain. But in the majority of cases it’s not arthritis, it’s just tight muscles pulling on the bones of the joint and preventing them from moving freely.
But, all you need is to know where the knot (spasm) is, and then apply direct pressure on it. Hold the pressure for 30 seconds or so, and then let go. Keep repeating this until it doesn’t hurt anymore. |
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Headache Relief
 Let’s say you have headache pain. There are so many muscles that impact headaches that it would take a book (like my book: “Treat Yourself to Pain-Free Living”) to discuss each of them. So, let’s just look at one muscle, the Levator Scapulae.
The Levator Scapulae is responsible for lifting your shoulder up. In fact, the nickname for the Levator Scapulae is “the shrug muscle.” But look at this graphic and you’ll see where the knots form (the round red circles) and where you feel the pain (the red shaded areas).
You may not think to press on your lower neck/shoulder when you feel headache pain. This muscle also causes the pain you feel in the middle of your back, between your shoulder blades. |
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| And self-treatment is so easy! |
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 You can put your opposite thumb into the front of your shoulder as shown in this picture, and your fingers in the back of the muscle. Then squeeze your thumb and fingers so they pinch the entire muscle. |
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 Or you can put the perfect ball on the very top of your shoulder and then lean into the corner of a wall as shown in this picture. |
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| What you are doing is forcing the acid (as in Lactic Acid) out of the muscle fiber so blood can fill the void and heal the muscle fiber. As you do this you are untying the knot and the pressure is removed from the joint. In most cases the joint can now move more freely and without pain.
All the self-treatments in my book are just this easy!
Most people have significant pain relief, and I am happy to say many get total and permanent pain relief. Try it yourself, self-treatment is easy. The worst thing that can happen is nothing, and the best thing that can happen is regaining normalcy. |
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Why stay in pain when it’s so easy to find the muscular source of the problem and eliminate it?
Get Treat Yourself to Pain-Free Living . It is filled with over 100 pictures and descriptions proven to show you how to find and self-treat muscle spasms from head to foot!
Join the 1000’s of people worldwide who have discovered that tight muscles were the true source of pains they thought were from arthritis, fibromyalgia, and other serious conditions. You have nothing to lose, and everything to gain by releasing tight muscles.
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Wishing you well,
Julie Donnelly
These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This information is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
About The Author
Julie Donnelly is a Deep Muscle Massage Therapist with 20 years of experience specializing in the treatment of chronic joint pain and sports injuries. She has worked extensively with elite athletes and patients who have been unsuccessful at finding relief through the more conventional therapies.
She has been widely published, both on – and off – line, in magazines, newsletters, and newspapers around the country. She is also often chosen to speak at national conventions, medical schools, and health facilities nationwide.
