The relation of the high cervical, the jugular foramen and the visceral points with primary and cervicongenic headaches

Abstract

According to the World Health Organization, headache is a big disturbance of the public health that demands better management. It can be classified in two groups according to its causes, being primary or secondary headache. The pain may be originated from a cervical dysfunction, from a cervical spine disorder and bone elements, from muscular contraction in the area and from a visceral nociceptive pain.  The goal of this study was to correlate dysfunctions in the upper cervical/C0, jugular, optical and jaw foramens and visceral dermalgia with primary headache and cervicogenic via physiotherapy assessment. A cross sectional exploratory descriptive study was carried out in a field research with a sample of 40 participants of both genders. An anamnesis, the application of a questionnaire for the first diagnosis of the primary headache, was carried out as well as MIDAS questionnaire, assessment of the injury chain (IC), osteopathic assessment of the upper cervical/CO area, jugular, optical and jaw foramens and visceral dermalgia in pylorus, cardia, odi and gallbladder. The results pointed out that the dysfunctions in the upper cervical/C0 are related with the analogical visual spectrum and the descending IC will be correlated with the primary headache and cervicogenic affirming the fact that the less ascending the IC is, the more dysfunctions in jaw foramen will be found. The correlation of the jaw foramen with the cardia valve, optical foramen with odi and gallbladder with pylorus has statistical relevance, although it did not find bibliographical references that support the correlation. Nonetheless, it is necessary that more studies explores these correlations and increase an evaluative point about the components of the changes of temporomandibular and digestive injury chain.