Neck Pain

Can Migraine Cause Neck Pain?

There are various types of headaches viz. migraines, muscular, tension or cluster headaches. Migraine is one of the neurological diseases causing severe headache. It creates pain usually on only one side of the head. Patients facing different types of headaches have to face neck pain also at some stage of the headache.

Migraine:

Migraine occurs in four phases namely prodrone, aura, pain and postdrome. Prodrone occurs some days before migraine in nearly half of the patients facing migraine. During this phase patient feels depression, fatigue, irritability, etc. One forth of the patients face aura phase is a focal neurological phenomenon.

After this, patient enters in pain phase including severe unilateral headache, moderate to severe. Most of the patients face nausea. Worsening of the mood and concentration is very common symptom of this phase. After pain phase, potstone phase comes in which patient may feel irritability, impaired concentration, lightedness, etc. Migraine causes headache:

Ligaments in the neck when damaged create pain in the head. For many people headache starts at the lower side of the neck. It moves upwards and enters in the head through eyes and temples. Many migraine sufferers take pain in the lower side of the neck as starting point of headache. Furthermore it has been found that neck pain when cured also cures headache associated with it. Numbers of patients suffer neck pain during the aura and pain phase of the migraine. Important reason for neck pain is ligaments. Prolotherapy which heals the ligaments by stimulating them also have found to cure headache. This is means that there is some relationship between neck pain and headaches. Occurrence of neck pain and migraine together gives out various important points. First is that neck pain must be an important symptom of the acute migraine headache. Another is neck pain in the later phases of the migraine may indicate allodynia.   About three forth of the acute migraine sufferers face neck pain. In most of the patients facing neck pain associated with migraine, neck pain is tightedness, while some are suffering through stiffness or throbbing. And even if migraine is taken as the cause of the neck pain, occurrence of the migraine follows neck pain.