MIGRAINE

Many migraine treatments fail because they do not address the underlying cause which is cervical spine instability from cervical ligament damage.

Medications do not address the problem of headaches coming from the neck caused by stretched out or damaged cervical ligaments.

Research published in The Open Orthopaedics Journal (1) demonstrated that when the neck ligaments are injured, they become elongated and loose, which causes excessive movement of the cervical vertebrae. In the upper cervical spine (C0-C2), this can cause a number of other symptoms including, but not limited to, nerve irritation and vertebrobasilar insufficiency with associated vertigo, tinnitus, dizziness, facial pain, arm pain, and migraine headaches.

(1) Steilen D, Hauser R, Woldin B, Sawyer S. Chronic neck pain: making the connection between capsular ligament laxity and cervical instability. The open orthopaedics journal. 2014;8:326. [Google Scholar]