In the past, people often think that headaches are caused by problems with the nerves and blood vessels in the head, but do not pay attention to the role played by the neck, so the treatment is often “headache treatment, foot pain treatment”, and most patients will choose to take oral painkillers when they have headache attacks. However, the treatment effect of this method often can only temporarily relieve the symptoms, but not completely cure, thus eventually forming the situation of “patients with headache and doctors with headache”. In fact, most headaches are closely related to the cervical spine. 1983, a doctor in the United States first introduced the concept of cervicogenic headache. After nearly 10 years of continuous debates and research after that, cervicogenic headache was finally taken seriously by experts from many disciplines and was recognized by the International Headache Society in 1990. Currently, the concept is widely accepted by clinicians. In recent years, some scholars have pointed out that degenerative changes of the cervical spine, muscle spasm of the neck, and misalignment of the cervical spine are the direct causes of cervicogenic headache, so cervicogenic headache is also called cervicogenic headache. What are the characteristics of cervicogenic headache: Cervicogenic headache is caused by cervical spondylosis and acute and chronic cervical spine injury, and is related to the stimulation of the nerves in the neck. Patients with cervicogenic headaches tend to have stiffness, soreness, and swelling of the neck, and some have adverse cervical movement. The headache is characterized by recurrent dull or aching pain in the occipital area, top of the head, temples, forehead or around the orbits, accompanied by pain in the upper part of the neck. On physical examination by the specialist, the patient has varying degrees of pressure pain around the neck, back and shoulders. Why is headache related to the neck: Most of the nerves in the head come from the neck. If the muscles of the cervical spine or the related vertebrae become diseased, the nerves passing through this area will be affected. Due to the influence of living habits and working posture, it is easy to produce fascial strain in the neck, which causes aseptic inflammation of the cervical myofascia in the occipital attachment area, connective tissue hyperplasia, and inter-tissue scarring adhesions, resulting in soft tissue degeneration in the neck or minor misalignment of the cervical joints, and when these degenerated soft tissues or misaligned cervical vertebrae jam or stimulate the scalp nerves emanating from the cervical vertebrae, which can cause headache or migraine, and also The jamming stimulates the sympathetic nerves as well as the vertebral artery, causing insufficient blood supply to the brain and sympathetic nerve dysfunction, which can lead to more symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, vertigo, visual impairment, photophobia, phonophobia, limb numbness, etc. Whether cervicogenic headache is age-related: Most cervicogenic headaches occur between the ages of 20 and 60, but younger ones are not uncommon, and the youngest patient we encountered was only 12 years old. With the accelerated pace of modern life, the increased pressure of competition, the proliferation of computers and TVs, the strained brain and poor posture make the incidence of cervical spondylosis increasingly high and young, and even many primary and secondary school students are suffering from cervical spondylosis without realizing it. I have been told by many patients with cervical spondylosis that they have symptoms at a very young age, and at a young age, they look confused, slow to respond, inattentive in class, and give adults that they are dizzy and have headaches, and their parents do not understand and say that he is lazy and does not work hard, but in fact, he wants to work hard in his heart, but he cannot concentrate, and these are all caused by cervical spondylosis, which is a strain on the muscles of the cervical spine causing a lack of blood supply to the brain. These children’s symptoms are often misdiagnosed, going to the doctor rarely think of cervical spondylosis, because it is a small child are not considered to be any disease, think that there is a problem with the physique. Therefore, the progressively younger age of patients with cervical spondylosis should now be taken seriously! How to cure cervicogenic headache: Many treatments in the clinic are mainly based on vasodilatation to improve the symptoms, but they are not enough to loosen the jamming of the large and small occipital nerves by cervical-occipital myofascial adhesions and hyperplasia, thus making the elimination of symptoms incomplete and the long-term curative effect poor. In recent years, we have combined traditional Chinese medicine’s sharp needles, paddle needles, Chinese medicine acupuncture point injection, and orthopedic repositioning to thoroughly release and peel the myofascial areas in the cervical-occipital area that cause compression, so that on the one hand, the Qi and blood can be unblocked, blood circulation can be activated and blood stasis can be eliminated, and “pass is not painful”; on the other hand, special needles can be used to release the soft tissues of adhesions, and orthopedic repositioning can be used to On the other hand, special needles can be used to loosen the soft tissues of adhesions and orthopedic manipulation to correct the misaligned cervical vertebrae, so as to remove the stuck pressure, improve circulation and eliminate sterile inflammation, so as to “loosen to pass and pass without pain”. In clinical practice, it has achieved more satisfactory results and can be cured in 3 to 6 times. What should be noted to prevent cervicogenic headache: 1. Maintain good sleeping position and working posture. 2.People spend 6-9 hours a day in sleep, so it is important to choose a suitable pillow and put the head and neck in a proper position during sleep to prevent cervical spine and neck muscle strain diseases. 3, the work should often change posture, avoid the same posture for too long, adhere to do interval exercises, if necessary, need to change the type of work.