Headaches?

Hey there. Dr. James Fedich, clinic director here at Village Family Clinic in Allamuchy, New Jersey, talking today about headaches. So people have wondered what the major cause of headache is. In most headaches, about 80% are coming out of your neck. So how does that work? Now we got the brain up top of our skull here, nerves coming down. There's two ways we can get headaches coming out of the neck. One of the most common is occipital headaches in the back of your skull bone. There's these little muscles here that connect the skull to the spine, and we're moving our head around all day adjusting for screens, looking at our phone. Those muscles get tired, sore, and start compressing some of the blood supply in there. It can give you a headache. The other way we get a headache is sometimes one of these nerves is getting pinched out of the neck. So I never quite understood, but the brain, the spinal cord comes out of the spinal cord and out the nerves and back up to the head. So the brain wants to talk to your finger. It zips the nerve down here. But to talk to the top of your head, the nerve has to come out through the neck and back up to the head. And if you kind of notice the pattern that's blinking there, that's where a lot of people get those tension type headaches. So a lot of times, that's a nerve being pinched in the upper part of the spine that causes pain up and down. And we'll typically see the pain kind of radiate through there, and that's a tension type headache. So on the other side of the headaches, there can be cluster headaches, vision headaches, hormone headaches for women. A couple of other reasons, but seventy eight percent of headaches are cervicogenic, which means they're coming out of the neck. That's something chiropractic can help with a series of chiropractic adjustments. So if you or anyone, you know, is suffering from headaches, especially types in the back of the neck or pulling through here, tell them to just give us a call or a text at (908) 813-8200.