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It is of course a trueism that Migraine happens in your head, but there maybe a way that muscle pain may be experienced as headache…
However, it becomes more and more evident that headache may be linked to nociceptive inputs from peripheral structures that can converge upon the same bipolar neurons, with pain from the pericranial head or the neck and shoulder region being referred to the brainstem and meninges and being experienced as headache [5–8].
The link of mTrPs of the neck area to migraine is further suggested by investigations that were successful to provoke migraine attacks by manual palpation delivered specifically to these points [12, 16].
I shall continue…https://thejournalofheadacheandpain.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s10194-019-0960-9
Dr. Max