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Migraine and Festive Cheer?

As we move into the Christmas and New Year festivities many people crack open slightly more bottles of wine than usual. Some white, some rose and some red.
It isn’t the first time red wine has been mentioned on this blog [...]

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Reflexology and Migraine

Reflexology is a safe and effective therapy for migraine sufferers.   For anyone unfamiliar with reflexology, it is the practice of applying pressure to reflexes in the feet and hands that correspond to specific body organs.  By stimulating nerves on specific [...]

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Migraine and Indian Head Massage

Having recently enjoyed an Indian Head Massage, using a Christmas gift voucher from my son, I asked holistic therapist, Pauline McKittrick, from Really Good Life, for her thoughts on how Indian Head Massage could help migraine sufferers. Read her comments [...]

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Therapeutic Effect of Laughter

Following on from my post a few days ago about “walking, talking and laughing” I came across the following post about laughter clubs in the news.
If you can bear with the initial (possibly) “fake” laughter in the news-clip, you’ll see [...]

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Walking, talking and laughing

Qualified complementary therapists keep up-to-date with their profession via training and continual personal development. My governing body runs regular sessions we can attend to introduce us to the work of other practitioners and learn how it can help our clients.
This [...]

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Getting more done in your days

Many sufferers believe, probably correctly, that their migraines are triggered by stress.
In my own case, bizarrely, it seemed to be relief after getting through stress that would bring on a migraine. For example, if I were preparing  dinner for visitors, [...]

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