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Head Off Headaches

This simple move can help ease dull pain in your forehead and temples.


Do you slouch when you sit or stand? Hunching your shoulders pushes your head forward and puts strain on the muscles that support your neck. Over time, this tightness can trigger a tension headache-that dull pain in the forehead, temples, and skull. To improve your posture and keep your neck and shoulders limber, try these simple neck rolls.
  • Inhale and lower your right ear toward your right shoulder. Then exhale and roll your chin down toward your chest. Inhale and roll your left ear toward your left shoulder, then exhale and roll your chin back toward your chest.
  • Repeat 4 to 6 times.
Do these neck rolls several times a day, up to once per hour while awake, to keep your upper body and neck relaxed, suggests Baxter Bell, M.D., a San Francisco Bay Area-based physician, medical acupuncturist, and yoga instructor (bellyoga.info).

For Bell's tension-headache-relieving yoga sequence, see the October 2007 issue of Natural Health.

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