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...