Paula Gallagher
1 post
Nov 29, 2008
8:27 AM
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Hello,
Has anyone had sucess treating headaches with TMR? I don't necessarily mean only directed treatments but also those "Oh by the way.." kind of incidental succeses too!
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Tom Dalonzo-Baker
75 posts
Nov 29, 2008
9:00 AM
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Absolutely. In fact, I was and occassionally still do get migraines. Works very well, but do not assume the treatment will be up in the upper body. Often times lower body stuff helps the most. I remember one patient who came in to us for an ankle sprain and fixed it with a Toe Reach. 9 months later she returned complaining of headaches and fascinating enough the toe reach was the biggest help for her headaches too. She was kind of irritated and said, "dag - you are telling me if I had just done what I had done for my ankle I could have fixed it myself."
Hope that helps
Tom
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Paula Gallagher
2 posts
Nov 29, 2008
10:23 PM
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Hi Tom,
Thanks for the info . Interesting that a distant site could affect a headache. I look forward to hearing from others who have similar experiences (hopefully!)
Paula
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jen
24 posts
Nov 30, 2008
8:02 PM
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i could get rid of ha in right side of my head with right leg raise, had another pt did the same with leg raise for about 2 weeks-then either the twist or the leg raise would help, jen
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GRobPT
1 post
Dec 12, 2008
6:47 AM
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Group, I too have had questions about headaches and migraines. I have had some success with some patients with headaches and i too have found the oddly enough it is the lower part of the body the help eliminate them, however i have had a couple patients with very obvious differences upon testing the Fab 5 started treating exercise 1 so on an so forth and would not change the headache or made it worse. I one such instance i had a young kid that we did leg raise and took his headache away almost immediately but then when we went to his #2 exercise (i believe it was toe reach and the headache came back very fast and severly to the point that i had to discontinue the exercise to do more manual techniques to relax neck and calm him back down. Any thoughts on these instances. Thanks
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Tom Dalonzo-Baker
77 posts
Dec 15, 2008
1:05 PM
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My suggestion would have been to go back to the exercise that made the HA better. And then left it at that. Sometimes doing just the "winner" exercise is enough until the next visit. The body seems to readjust. It has been a lesson I have learned in the past, when I got over excited about continue, continue, continue. Sometimes - stay with one thing and then progess the next visit. You don't have to do it all at once. My suggestion is always start by doing just one exercise, then the next visit 2 or 3 and then progress from there.
Hope that helps
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