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Tight suboccipital muscles at the base of your skull can cause headaches. Lie down with a lacrosse ball in the crook of your neck and do chin tucks and neck rotations to release them.
Tight suboccipital muscles at the base of your skull can cause headaches. Lie down with a lacrosse ball in the crook of your neck and do chin tucks and neck rotations to release them.
We have a group of small muscles called our suboccipital muscles that connect our head to our neck, basically. For a lot of us, they can get really tight, and they're one of the muscles that can cause headaches a lot of times. So a good way to get at them is lacrosse ball, opposite hand. We're going for right in the crook of the neck here. You're gonna lie down. Place ball right there. You have to hold it with your opposite hand, otherwise it likes to just kind of spit out. And then all we're going to do is some chin tucks down and back, and then you can rotate side to side as well. These are really helpful oftentimes with suboccipital headaches, or the ones that kind of start and then kind of curl around your head. We call them ram's head headaches. So if you're having any of those, or if you feel like your neck could use a little more mobility, give this guy a try.
