Wednesday, February 23, 2011 at 7:34AM See this article where researchers showed that mobile phone use has a definite ‘local’ effect on the part of the brain where the phone is held closest to.
Sure, that doesn’t mean there are adverse effects - but deniers can no longer say that mobile phones have NO effect on the human brain …
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110222162308.htm
Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 8:25AM Taking away part of the muscles in the scalp that can generate trigger points seems to help ‘migraines’.
See this article … http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110202162043.htm.
I’m not sure that the study authors, or Science Daily’s reporters, have used the term migraine in the right way - from the way that they talk about these headaches, about trigger points etc., they may in fact be taking about tension or cervicogenic headaches, not true migraines.
Sunday, September 27, 2009 at 7:12PM Nothing surprising here, you might well argue. Certainly, osteopaths have found - over the last century or so of practice - that disorders of function in the neck can contribute to, or outright cause, various headache patterns. One of the presumed mechanisms is functional hypermobility of particular joint and muscle complexes in the neck, often caused by stiffness or altered function elsewhere in the neck or lower down.
A recent study shed some light on this ... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090803122721.htm