Welcome! If you’re a new visitor, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Recently I got an email from Scott, who had just been diagnosed with a "deviated septum".  He has daily headaches, and was wondering if a deviated septum could be responsible.
First, a little background.  What is a […]

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Thanks to Kerrie over at The Daily Headache for introducing me to the concept of myofascial release.  This type of alternative treatment is being used in various parts of the world to help fight migraine and headaches, and so I figured it was time I checked it out.
Myofascial release is like a massage, though practitioners […]

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Always on the lookout for treatments for headaches, I recently came across ear candling.  But keep reading before you start looking for a practitioner in your area.
Ear candling, also known as thermal-auricular therapy , or coning, is supposed to clean out impurities and wax from your ear.  The claim is that the procedure can help […]

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So what about using magnets for migraine - or any kind of pain for that matter?  Do they work?  Is it worth the money?
The answer is… maybe.  But probably not.  At least, that’s what the research is telling us so far.
From what I’ve seen, there’s no compelling scientific research that magnets - the small kind […]

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Believe it or not, I had never heard of HeadOn until recently.  If you’ve seen their ads on TV, you may count me lucky.  NBC’s Brian Williams called it "the most annoying ad on television".  Apparently, the repetitive "Apply directly to the forehead" line was designed to first create a need for the product and […]

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Are you interested to know more about medical video games that are already in use?  Want to find out have video games distract from pain, or help you lose weight, or even games that improve your doctor’s performance?
Guest author Lisa Copen writes about some of the recent research into these kinds of computer and video […]

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What if you could hook wires up to your brain, and control a computer game without moving a muscle?  And what if that game guided your brain to act in ways that slowed down or stopped the migraine chain-reaction, or relaxed sore muscles, or cooled off your headache?
If controlling your computer with your brain sounds […]

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