The Base-of-Skull Gateway: The Root Cause of Chronic Tension Headaches
Painkillers mask the signal but ignore the physical vice grip squeezing the base of your skull.
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You rub your temples, apply essential oils, and take medication, but that dull, heavy band of pressure wrapping around your forehead and behind your eyes returns multiple times a week.
Splenius Capitis and Semispinalis insert right into the base of the skull. Chronic forward head positioning glues these layers together, trapping the Greater Occipital Nerve. The trapped nerve fires an upstream referral pattern that registers in the brain as a classic tension headache.
High-precision manual decompression of the suboccipital and splenius layers to untrap the occipital nerve pathway, breaking the physical trigger loop of tension headaches.
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