Muscle Tension Headaches

These form of headaches typically involve muscle of the head, neck, and or upper back. Most common muscles include the occipitals, trapezius, SCM, spinous, and the semispinalis.

Tightness, spasm, and trigger points in these muscles often cause the pain that travels into the head.

The causes can be mental, physical, or even both. Things like a stressful situation at home or prolonged poor posture at work. Now, the muscles we talked about can pull vertebrae out of alignment creating more nerve pressure and pain.

Try to minimize stress levels and get the spine in alignment.

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Spot Cleaning Your Pillow

Here at arc4life we have seen that if you constantly throw your pillow in the washer, it will start to break the pillow fibers down. This is one reason we like the dust covers. They work as a great protector, you can easily unzip it and throw it in the wash. That being said, let's say you don't have the dust cover on an you get a stain on the pillow. This is where spot cleaning comes into

Here's what you do:

1)get a toothbrush, get some ivory soap, wet the spot.

2)make a lather with the soap.

3)put it on the spot, scrub it with the brush.

4)clean with water, dry with hair dryer a bit, let it air dry fully.

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