COMMON HEADACHE PAIN PATTERNS

Remembering that this web site is not in the business of making medical diagnosis -- I have shaded the diagrams below to show where pain shows up for four common headache types.

The "X" means my process DOES NOT typically work on these headache types because their cause is often "organic." Tension headaches are typically caused by internal thought processes (worry, etc.) and/or stressful external stimuli (loud noises, disharmony, cranky people, etc.)

Keep in mind that it is possible that you can have several forms of headache at the same time. I call these "overlapping" headaches. For example, someone goes to work with a slight migraine. Their work environment, and resistence to being there, cause them additional stress. The end result being that they have both a migraine and a stress headache.

If your pain pattern fits the tension headache pattern, circled in blue, the odds are pretty good you may benefit from the MSH process.