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 and it probably won’t be the last. But, if red wine is one of your migraine triggers you’ll be well advised to avoid it over the holiday period. Often a migraine is triggered by the cumulative effect of several [...]
Tags: alcohol, migraine and parties, red wine, stress
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 areas of the feet and hands, we can stimulate blood flow, lower stress and eliminate accumulated toxins in the corresponding organs and systems of the body. By this means, many forms of sickness and disease can be reversed or at [...]
Tags: complementary therapy, relaxation, stress
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 below. (And as a personal aside, I can vouch for the fact that my massage was an absolutely blissful experience!!) Here’s Pauline, on “Indian Head Massage”: I wanted to comment on how one of the therapies I regularly use with [...]
Tags: complementary therapy, endorphins, relaxation, serotonin, stress
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 that this is backed up by science. And I mean no insult when I talk about fake laughter, because you’ll hear in the clip that the well-being effect is even induced by fake laughter. More on laughter’s therapeutic effect. [...]
Tags: endorphins, laughter, Other helpful sites, stress
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 morning I attended a fascinating talk by Adam Shaw, a qualified health consultant with over 16 years of experience in the health care field – and a great sense of humour. Adam held us spell-bound for a couple of [...]
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, I would handle all the preparations perfectly adequately and even enjoy the evening, but then when it was all over, a migraine would develop. This is largely history now, but I still get the occasional stress-triggered headache when I [...]
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