Umasankar Mohanty*

Professor, Founder President, Manual Therapy Foundation of India®, India

*Corresponding Author: Umasankar Mohanty, Professor, Founder President, Manual Therapy Foundation of India®, India.

Received: January 06, 2021; Published: July 14, 2021

Abstract

Headaches are often caused by disorders of the neck or physical and emotional tension. Skilled manipulative physiotherapists can successfully treat headaches originating from the neck or soft tissues and facilitate to prevent the pain arising from cervicogenic headache.

Keywords: Cervicogenic Headache; Manual Therapy; Neck

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Citation

Citation: Umasankar Mohanty. “Manual Therapy for Cervicogenic Headache”. Acta Scientific Neurology 4.8 (2021): 18-22.

Copyright

Copyright: © 2021 Umasankar Mohanty. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.