Ice-cream Headache / Brain Freeze

Symptoms Can Include:

  • Sharp, stabbing pain focused in the forehead

Relationship to Body Structure and Behavior:

  • Not neuropathic
  • Related to excessive fixation of eyes to a screen with forward leaning posture
  • While posterior cervical muscles are holding head in positions, anterior cervical muscles are in prolonged contraction
  • With cold stimuli (cold water or ice-cream) on pharyngeal wall, the affected anterior cervical muscles will have spasm/cramps
  • Stress response to the pain will cause more spasm/cramps of the muscles

Suggestions for Prevention:
Make several big nods to alternate the contraction pattern of the muscles

Brain Freeze