Would You Believe That Osteopathy Can Help Alleviate Your Headaches? 

Migraines can be incapacitating, if you experience them, you know this. They make it difficult to concentrate, work, and carry out basic daily activities. There are a variety of treatments available, and osteopathy, is a natural and effective method. In this article, we'll discuss how osteopathy can help with migraines, what to expect during an osteopathy session, and why it's a great option for those seeking a natural remedy. 

What exactly is osteopathy?

Osteopathy is a form of manual therapy that concentrates on the musculoskeletal system, which consists of bones, muscles, and connective tissue. It is a holistic approach that considers the whole person and how our various components function. Osteopaths manipulate the body's tissues with hands on treatment. Osteopathy is a holistic approach to healthcare that emphasises the structure and function of the musculoskeletal system.

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Always love a week or a month that will help raise awareness and this week is National Pain Week. So, during this week, we’re going to be talking about conditions that can have an influence on headaches and migraines and also how headaches and migraines can interact and influence these conditions. And so today, we’re starting off with fibromyalgia.

Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition that creates multiple regions of pain throughout the body and the musculoskeletal system that is usually more of a dull consistent ache type of pain. The pain can certainly vary in intensity from lower-grade pain to higher-grade pain. General fatigue, sleep disturbances, cognitive disturbances, and strong brain fog are also characteristics of fibromyalgia.

Fibromyalgia can be quite difficult to diagnose because the signs and symptoms do look like other things and other things do need to be ruled out first before a diagnosis of fibromyalgia can be ruled in and there are actually no tests for...

If you know that neck pain is adding, contributing, or causing your headaches and migraines, then today's video is for you. So today I'm going to show you an exercise to help reduce your neck pain and stiffness to hopefully help decrease your headaches and migraines.

Hi, I'm Dr Beth osteopath here at Melbourne Headache Solutions.

Neck pain and stiffness are two of the most common associated features with headaches and migraines. We know that there's one of the leading causes of headaches and migraines. Particularly, the top three joints in the neck, but you can't have healthy top three joints in the neck without having a healthy rest of the spine as well.

If it feels like concrete and it moves like concrete, then basically you can't have a healthy top part of the spine and you're going to get headaches and migraine. So, we need to make sure that your cervical spine and your neck is moving nice and healthily to help decrease those headaches and migraines.

So particularly for...

Do you feel like your pain could be linked to stress? Are you constantly complaining of headaches, sore shoulders, tight jaw, or sore neck?

Most of us know that stress can have a big impact on our mental wellbeing, but did you know that excessive stress can also have an effect on our physical body and behaviors too?

Hi everyone! My name is Helen and I'm an osteopath here at Melbourne Headache Solutions. Today, I want to talk to you all about the physical signs of stress, what to look out for, and what you can do about it.

We all have stress in our lives. It could be from things like work deadlines and traffic, family drama, and more. When we have stress, whether it’s short term or long term, our bodies release certain hormones called adrenaline and cortisol. Now these are known as a fight or flight response. A small amount of these hormones can actually be quite beneficial. These help heighten our alertness, increase our focus, and are really useful in emergencies. However,...

Do you experience headaches through the front of your head, sides of your head, or into the back of your head?

Does it feel like it had just been squeezed so tight that it could burst at any second?

Chances are most of us experienced this tension headache or a suboccipital headache at some stages of our lives. These headaches are a super common presentation that come into the clinic so I'm going to give you a bit of information on how you can help manage them at home.

The main causative factor for these headaches and migraines is through the top three joints in your neck, being the atlanto-occipital joint, comprising the base of your skull and the first vertebrae and the atlantoaxial joint comprising of the joint between your first and your second cervical vertebrae. There are a lot of super strong muscles that connect in through the neck and shoulders and when they go into spasm, they can interfere with the vertebrae’s movement and cause them to get stuck. Suboccipital or...

Sugar and carb heavy traits like cakes and lollies and breads, they all sound super tasty and they’re particularly prevalent right now in these weeks leading to Christmas, but could they be contributing to your headaches and migraines?

Hi everybody! My name is Helen and I'm an osteopath here at Melbourne Headache Solutions. Today I want to talk to you about how sugar and carbs could be affecting your headaches and migraines.

Fluctuations in your glucose level affect your brain more than any other organ in your body. These rises and drops can result in headaches. So how does this come about? Well, now, before you start going into a panic saying, I'm going to think, I'm going to tell you to stop eating all your delicious traits. Don't worry, not everybody is affected by sugar and carbs and also not all sugar is bad for us.

There are three different types of sugars that could be really bad for us. It's things like sucrose, which is our white table sugar. Fructose, which is found...

New persistent daily headaches can be slightly terrifying or even terrifying when they come on because one day, you don’t have any kind of headache but then all of a sudden, now you’ve got a headache all day every day. So, we’re talking about where do they come from, what are they, and most importantly, what can we do about them?

Hi! I’m Dr. Beth. Osteopath here at Melbourne Headache Solutions.

Chronic headaches or this new persistent daily headache, they’re essentially a threshold problem. So, with these headaches, they come on when you have reached your certain threshold and all of a sudden, the headache has now started switching on. Now, your threshold is different to my threshold, which is different to the next person’s threshold. So, essentially, we have these building blocks that contribute and build up until essentially we have reached our threshold where the headaches will turn on. Now, what are these building blocks that contribute to...