Neck pain? 2-minute fix you can do right now

Do you suffer from tension headaches in the back of the head, and you feel that you need some sort of solution? Well if so, I've seen many patients with this issue, and if the front muscles are in good shape but the patient has extreme neck sensitivity in this area, I often recommend using a massage roller or something similar to get those areas treated.

Now that I've covered neck-related issues from multiple angles, I'm also interested in what else can be tried to relieve this pain, and whether there are any hand tools worth using. As new and exciting things pop up in the market from time to time, I do get interested, and this time I have fallen victim to an ad - I came across a product from EV Wellness called Atlas Care and Atlas TS online, and started wondering what it brings to the table differently. I compared this to a baking roll, then I contacted the product maker and asked if I could get both products at home to try, and they are now here. However, I decided that I would not get paid to advertise the product, and I could give my own opinion in this video. If the spoken content doesn't please the product manufacturer, then this video will simply be deleted.

Over half of the people suffer from tension headaches at some point in their lives, and it occurs in all age groups, even in children - however the prevalence of the symptoms decreases with age. But if you have the symptoms present, do you want to wait, or do something about it? That's for each individual to decide. When does this become a chronic challenge? When there are more headache days in a month compared to symptom-free days.

The exact cause of tension headache is not really known, but tension of the muscles in the neck, shoulder and scalp is associated with the development of the pain symptoms - though it doesn't explain the entire symptom package. Tension headaches are typically associated with the ischemic pain mechanism. The ischemic pain mechanism means that the muscles are trying to support the posture, and when lactic acid begins to build up in the muscle and the body's ability to clear lactic acid weakens, then we need to start moving the affected area to get oxygen flowing back to the structures. This is when the steady, squeezing, tightening, band-like pain intensifies towards the evening, when the frontalis muscle on the front and the occipitalis muscle on the back tense up. The symptoms may be felt in the scalp area. If you feel like you're wearing a swimming cap and there is a slight dizziness, that's also very common with tension headache symptoms. If your symptoms include red flags in addition to the above, the only right place to go is the doctor. ---