Cervicogenic headaches are caused by poor posture

  Headache is a common health problem, especially long-term chronic headache. According to the survey results, headaches account for the highest percentage of physical pain (56%) and occur in more than half of people of all ages, with headaches occurring in more than 70% of people under 30 years old as well as those between 30 and 45 years old. Up to 53% of respondents reported having a headache at least once a day.  In fact, some chronic headaches are closely related to poor body posture, especially abnormal neck and shoulder, pelvis and spine posture, which is known as “cervicogenic headache” in medical science. Cervicogenic headaches have a serious impact on people’s lives. According to statistics, cervicogenic headache accounts for 0.4-2.5% of the total population and is more common in women.  In 1990, the International Headache Society established the diagnostic criteria for “cervicogenic headache”: symptoms include headache, pain in the neck, shoulders and upper arms, pain that may be transmitted from the neck to the forehead and eyes, and may be accompanied by nausea, vomiting, dizziness, photophobia and dysphagia, and blurred ipsilateral vision.  Currently, the treatment of cervicogenic headache is mainly symptomatic, and doctors give pain medication, but this approach of treating the headache and the foot has little effect, and patients still cannot get relief and suffer.  The main cause of cervicogenic headache is postural abnormalities, which cannot be cured fundamentally without correcting postural abnormalities, and that is why the effect of medication is not satisfactory. Let’s take a look at why postural abnormalities can cause cervicogenic headaches.  The skeletal muscle system runs through the chest and back, and its load-bearing capacity depends on a stable foundation of muscles, joints and bones. But above the shoulders, there is essentially no major muscle group and trunk support that can be relied upon, which requires a complex system of balance. This is the normal posture of the body, with the head located above the shoulders and centered upright.  Patients with cervicogenic headache often have a forward tilt of the head and neck, where the curvature of the cervical spine disappears and is replaced by a straightening of the cervical curvature. This puts excessive load and heavy work on the neck muscles. It manifests as stiffness and reduced range of motion in the neck. Intermittent or persistent headache; because the cervical spine goes forward, the chest is forced forward, the lung capacity is reduced, the oxygen supply to the brain is insufficient, and nausea and vomiting in severe cases often occur; insufficient oxygen supply to the brain, there will be vertigo and dizziness performance; insufficient blood supply to the retina, there will be photophobia and blurred vision symptoms. In fact, the correction of postural abnormalities is relatively simple, through postural pain relief therapy can be well corrected posture, restore the normal arrangement of human body structure, cure headache, nausea, vomiting, vertigo, dizziness symptoms.  1. Back stretch: kneel on a large sponge block with your hands on the ground. Keep your elbows straight and move your hips 8cm from your knees. with tilting your pelvis, allow your lower back to arch. Keep the shoulder blades together and keep the elbows straight. Lower the head and maintain this position. If the back has been injured, the movement will be easier if the hip joint moves toward the knee joint.  2, the back is still: back down lying down, legs on a bench or sponge block. Arms are extended at 45 degrees, palms up. Relax the upper back, pay attention to the lower back from left to right to keep lying flat. Maintain this posture.  3.Hanging seat: Stand against the wall with your feet pointing straight ahead. Hips, upper back and head upright against the wall. Feet forward from the wall about two feet or two and a half feet away. Bend the knee and slide down the wall. Hold the position and place gravity on your heels. Lower back should be close to the wall.  4. Standing Horse Stance: Stand facing the doorway or any support that is the same height as your chest. Feet extended directly in front of you, about 10cm wide. Keep the elbows straight, pelvis tilted forward and lower back forming an arch. Keeping the hips in position, bend the knees downward so that the hips descend toward the floor. Keep the middle extension and lower back in an arch.