How We Help Treat Occipital and Trigeminal Neuralgia
Hey, it’s Dr. Cicala from Balanced Living Chiropractic in Rochester Hills, Michigan. We are Metro Detroit’s premier upper cervical chiropractic office. We specialize in treating occipital neuralgia, trigeminal neuralgia, headaches, migraines, and dysautonomia-type symptoms.
Today, we’re gonna focus on how we help treat occipital and trigeminal neuralgia. And this will also kind of pertain to other issues as well because there is kind of an epidemic going on with posture.
How Forward Head Posture Puts Pressure on the Spine
Because we’re looking at phones every day like this, we’re sitting looking at the computer and are hunched forward, everyone’s head is coming way forward, which puts a lot more pressure on the upper part of the spine and the upper part of the back.
And so when you get that, for every little inch that your head goes forward, it puts much more pressure into those areas—the upper neck and the upper back—which then can also help to pinch the nerves going into the head.
Using a Cervical Block or Rolled-Up Bath Towel
So on top of doing adjustments and frequency-specific microcurrent and icing, we also have our patients try to get their bodies so they come back upright, get the head back up on top of the shoulders.
And so whether you use a device like this—this is a cervical block, okay?—or you roll up a bath towel so it’s about this thick overall, what we have patients do is lie on their back. And I’m gonna show you this.
And you’re gonna lie like this for about 5 to 10 minutes a day, or up to about 15 minutes if you can handle it. But you’ll just lie on your back, you’re gonna place that there, and you’re just gonna let your head fall right over the top of it. And you’re just gonna lie like this for, like I said, 5 to 10 and a maximum of 15 minutes a day.
Bringing the Head and Neck Back Above the Shoulders
What that will do is it’s going to help to bring that head and neck back up on top of the shoulders, open up more communication channels so those nerves don’t get pinched as drastically.
And that will help not only get rid of your symptoms now, but if you continue to do that on somewhat of a regular basis, maybe a couple times a week, you’re gonna help to continue to decompress your neck, get your posture upright, which will help keep your body and your spine healthier in general from here on out.
A Tip for Neuralgia, Headaches, and Neck Pain
So that’s just a tip. If you are suffering with trigeminal neuralgia, occipital neuralgia, or something else that pertains, like migraines, headaches, neck pain, it’s always good to try using, like I said, either a device like we just showed you or roll up a bath towel so it’s about, you know, that thick. And just lie on your back there, along with using ice on a regular basis.
So hopefully that helps you. If that alone does not help you, come on and see me. I’d love to have a consultation with you and see if we can help you get back into your life pain-free.
