Conditions Helped in Norwood MA - Occipital Neuralgia

Occipital Neuralgia is a significant problem. Symptoms of occipital neuralgia include continuous aching, burning, and throbbing, with intermittent shocking or shooting pain that generally starts at the base of the head and goes to the scalp on one or both sides of the head. Patients often have pain behind the eye of the affected side of the head. The structures of the back of the head are being squeezed down significantly to cause this. Contact our Norwood MA chiropractic clinic today to learn how our team can help you.

This falls into the area of symptoms of the head. From a postural and tension point of view, the head gets overwhelmed by being squeezed on by the muscles of the scalp and down by the neck muscles, which is a likely cause of this problem. To cause this symptom, there is probably a significant pulling pattern that freaks your nervous system and body out. Dr. Smyth calls this hard head syndrome, and it can be felt by him as well as by the patient very often.

Gravity is pushing down on us all, and the body has to resist gravity. The head is the topmost structure of the body. The head is the parking brake, emergency brake, or last straw to stabilize your body’s posture. This happens when all the lower structures are full of tension and/or shifted into a weak position.

The skull is not one bone. It is made of many bones - 6 flat bones (2 temporal, 2 parietal, frontal, and occipital) plus several others, and it has slight movements throughout life called cranial rhythm. The skull and neck muscles tighten and harden as the head tilts and twists to counterbalance the distortion and strain below. When the neck and skull tighten enough, the structures and nerves of the head get overwhelmed and cause symptoms.

The QSM3 Approach In Norwood MA

Your body is very likely in a bad, shifted place, which is causing these symptoms. The QSM3 approach assesses and figures out the underlying stress problem by measuring your body's shifted and twisting postural holding stress pattern. By taking full spine imaging, Dr. Smyth is able to see and analyze your body's structural stress. Then he can start to unwind the holding pattern to reduce the neurological strain on the skull and shift the strain back down the body and away from the head. As the tension shifts back down to lower tissues and structures, the head is less overwhelmed, and the symptoms often decrease or disappear.

Occipital Neuralgia symptoms are typically caused by a very deep pattern that often takes care over a longer period of time to help. His goal is to help every problem as quickly as possible and as much as possible at each session.

Dr. Smyth measures your body before and after each visit to evaluate the effect and progress of care so that we can make it as effective as possible for you. The quicker and more we can unshift and untwist your body into a better position, the quicker you will receive the help you are looking for.