A cervicogenic headache or a neck headache is a headache can come from a combination of irritated spinal nerves, spinal misalignment and myofascial trigger points in your cervical spine. Muscles affected would be trigger points in the upper trapezius, levator scapulae, scalenes and suboccipital extensors. Weakness can often be found in you deep neck flexor with pain in your suboccipital area as well as the cranium or skull.

This can be worsened by intervertebral disc pathology, poor posture, neck injuries, whiplash, stress, chronic spasm of the scalp, neck, or shoulder muscles. Also, certain neck movements, repetitive activities or keeping your head turned to one side for a long period of time can be implicated and even cause pain in your neck first.

Sometimes the diagnosis is missed and other diagnoses of vascular pathologies of the neck, intracranial pathology, neck instability or occipital neuralgia is made.

With this video, you will be stretching and exercising the suspects below your head that can cause a headache. Even stretching structures as low as your thoracic spine, your ribcage, sternocleidomastoid muscles a levator scapula muscles can be beneficial when it comes to helping neck derived headaches.

Dr Adam Fields is a practicing chiropractor in Northern California and can be reached for telehealth or inperson care by clicking "book online" at www.fieldsfamilychiro.com.

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3/    • Day 3 of 7 Neck Pain Relief Exercises...  
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0:00 Start
:15 Occipital Lift Exercises over temporal bones at mastoid process and occipital bone
1:20 Frontalis Muscle Massage for Headaches
2:30 Scalp Massage for Cervicogenic Headaches
3:24 Chin Tucks for better posture and headache help
4:35 Occipital lifts on occipital bone at 45° angle
5:28 Upper trapezius stretch with lateral bends
6:20 Occipital Massage for headaches
7:25 Thoracic Torso Mobilization for neck headaches
11:25 Walking for headaches