Your Neck and Your Migraine: Which One Is Causing Which?
Neck pain and migraine turn up together constantly.
Most people who get migraines report neck symptoms around their attacks. Stiffness, tightness, soreness at the base of the skull, sometimes pain running up into the head.
And almost everyone draws the same conclusion: my neck is causing my migraines.
Sometimes that is right. Frequently it is backwards. And occasionally both things are happening at once.
Getting this straight matters, because the three situations call for three different approaches.