Can Physiotherapy Help With Headaches? What Your Neck May Have to Do With It
A headache rarely announces where it came from. It just arrives — sometimes after a long stretch at the computer, sometimes toward the end of a day spent driving, sometimes when the shoulders have been creeping up toward the ears for hours without anyone noticing. Many people assume the cause is stress, dehydration, or too little sleep, and often that's exactly right. But for a certain kind of recurring headache, the discomfort seems to travel — starting at the base of the skull, wrapping toward the temples or behind one eye. When that pattern shows up alongside a stiff, tight neck, it's worth asking whether the two are connected. How Can the Neck Be Connected to Headaches? The upper part of the neck and the base of the skull share a surprisingly close relationship with how pain is perceived in the head. The nerves that supply the top few segments of the cervical spine communicate with the same pathways that carry sensation from parts of the face and scalp. Because of that over...