At the most basic level, what mechanism is makes your head hurt?
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One of the most common causes of headaches (outside of general dehydration or a hangover) is muscular. Many people sit at a desk all day and the tightening and atrophying of your traps, pecs, scalenes, and sternocleidomastoids can cause tension and irritation at their attachment sights. Specifically, the sternocleidomastoids connect from your clavicle to the back of your skull and specifically help to turn your head. When these muscles atrophy or become tight, the resulting tension pulls on the back of your skull and affects the surrounding muscles at their attachment sight, which can lead to painful headaches. Many headaches can be reduced by stretching the sternocleidomastoids. Take this video as an example, and when you lean in, add this motion: simply turn your head to the left and hold and then to the right and hold and it will stretch each of the sternocleidomastoids and can reduce many headaches in less than a minute when done properly
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