| Muscles cause tension headaches so a better | | | | "balance" and your posture started to collapse. Or, |
| name for this type of head pain is Muscle Tension | | | | perhaps you spend too many hours in one |
| Headache. Muscles are responsible for | | | | position while holding your head in a certain way. |
| approximately 90% of our pain. Your muscles rule! | | | | Here's the deal: We were built to move. |
| So, why are they causing your headache? | | | | We were built to use all of our muscles all the |
| The truth is that muscles get unhappy. When | | | | time. You used to do this when you were a child. |
| they are unhappy they don't like to suffer alone. | | | | But, now? |
| They like to let you know they are not happy. | | | | We have a LOT of muscles--over 600--but most |
| They call your attention to their plight by causing | | | | of us use only the same 60 or 70 every day. |
| pain or other symptoms. | | | | You can see how this creates a lack of balance in |
| What makes muscles unhappy? | | | | your muscles. Some get over used and some |
| In a perfect world--or perfect body--your muscles | | | | become weak because they aren't used enough. |
| would be perfectly balanced. When you were a | | | | This is a problem. |
| small child, this was your reality. You didn't have | | | | Ideally, we would have perfect posture and |
| muscle tension headaches then, did you? | | | | perfect lives and perfect jobs and we wouldn't |
| But over the years, things changed. Your posture | | | | have Muscle Tension Headaches. But that's not |
| or the positions you sit, drive or work in changed. | | | | reality. |
| In fact, they got worse. Your muscles got out of | | | | |