Jaw and head pain share the trigeminal nerve. Why treating one without the other so often plateaus.
Migraine Types
The clinical distinctions, the convergence anatomy that lets a neck problem be felt in the head, and why the two coexist more than they compete.
What changes when migraine crosses from episodic to chronic, why treatment that once worked stops, and what actually reverses it.
Tension-type headache and migraine are the two most common headache disorders in the world, and they're also two of the most frequently confused. Tension-type headache affects roughly 30% of people at some point in a given year, migraine closer to 15%, and the two share enough features—head pain, some sensitivity to light or sound, a…
You see the zigzag lines. The blind spot creeps across your vision. Your hand goes tingly, or words won't come out right for a few minutes. And then... nothing. No head pain follows. If this sounds familiar, you've experienced what's commonly called a "silent migraine" — and clinically, it's a real, recognized migraine subtype, not…
Migraine isn’t one condition — it’s a family of related but distinct patterns. And for a striking number of them, the trail leads back to the same small, overworked region at the base of the skull.
When most people say “migraine,” they picture one thing: a throbbing, one-sided headache that puts them in a dark…