Atlanta Acupuncture
Center
275 Carpenter Drive, Atlanta, GA. 30328
Tel: 404250-9903; E-mail: lihua@aac2000.com
How To Help Headache?
Headache can be located in
different areas of the head, such as fore headache, temple headache, top
headache, back headache, behind eye headache, etc. Headache can be dull or severe. Headache can be caused by
different diseases or health unbalance. There is a very common kind of headache
resulted with stress called Tension Headache. Tension headache may cause simply
with the muscle over contract, feeling anxious, depress, insomnia, eye
problems, eye tiredness or stress. Tension headache starts from the back of
head with neck and shoulder heavy and tight. Tension headache usually is on the
side of head. My patients describe that the head seems wear heavy hat, or bind
tightly with a belt. Most my patients have had the tension headache for ten or
more years. They took medicines to relief the tension headache. These medicines
can relax the muscle, keep mind calm and stop pain, but taking them for long
term, it may hurt their stomach or cause temperately edema. Recently, job
layout adds more stress and makes more people to experience the tension
headache. Generally, taking medicine, drinking a little wine, massage, or
taking hot both that may temperately release the tension headache. But
acupuncture treatment has more steady, permanent effective result without any
side effects. Before seeing the acupuncture doctor, there is a simple method to
reduce the symptom. You may try it by pressing on the carotid and decreasing
pulse speed to relief the symptom. If the tension headache is on one side, just
only press on the same side of the carotid. No matter what kind of headaches
are, you should see a doctor to find out what it causes and then select the
treatment plan. And acupuncture usually is main or assisted treatment method
for headaches. Here I would like to introduce a way you may do yourself to
lower the pain level. Use fingers to press on the two ends of medial eyebrows
and temple area for about 5 - 10 minutes. I suggest doing Tai Chi Qi Gong every
day and get TuiNa treatment one or two times a month can prevent headaches.