Throbbing pain. Vice-like pinching. Pressure. Tension. There are many ways to describe a headache and recent research has shown headaches to be more than just a mere annoyance.
Headaches are, well, a major headache for the United States where 157 million workdays – accounting for almost $13 billion!! – are lost each year due to missed work caused by headaches. Fortunately, recent research has also shown that regular massage therapy can help ease the intensity, duration, and number of tension-type headaches, a pain that 78 percent of American will experience in their lifetime.
The effectiveness of massage for preventing and lessening the pain caused by headaches is another reason why people should use massage to improve their …

Acupressure is a completely non-invasive treatment option that has a high success rate among people who suffer from migraine headaches and is often used as an effective therapy to treat migraine headaches naturally. It has a proven track record as a successful pain abatement technique. Acupressure is also effective in reducing both the frequency and intensity of migraine attacks. Thus, many migraine sufferers turn to acupressure as an effective way to treat migraine headaches naturally.
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, there are over 800 vital energy points in the human body. These points lie along meridians that run throughout a person’s body. Chi, or life energy, flows along the meridians and through the energy points in healthy …

The July 2008 issue of Pain, a prestigious peer-reviewed medical journal published by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), featured a German investigate conducted by eight pediatric doctors and clinicians. The researchers attempted to determine whether or not laser acupuncture would prove effective in relieving the symptoms of chronic headaches in 43 children.
Conventional Chinese Remedy
The therapies for each child was individualized and carefully based on the conventional Chinese medical theory. The theory contends that bioelectricity, or the electrical current that is produced by living organisms, has a tendency to follow paths of higher conductivity within the human body. These paths, called meridians, own been shown to be composed of points that possess …