{"id":49,"date":"2009-03-14T18:14:08","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T18:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbottcenterblog.wordpress.com\/?p=49"},"modified":"2023-01-02T15:58:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T15:58:02","slug":"headache-pain-in-a-teenager-case-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/2009\/03\/14\/headache-pain-in-a-teenager-case-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Headache pain in a teenager: The case of Katy H."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-320\" title=\"student_backpack1\" src=\"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/student_backpack1.jpg\" alt=\"student_backpack1\" width=\"280\" height=\"301\" \/><strong>Headache pain<\/strong> is a surprisingly common complaint for teenagers that can be prevented and alleviated with a few simple steps.<\/p>\n<p>Katie H. was a healthy eighteen year old girl who was referred to my metro-Boston <strong>Neuromuscular Therapy<\/strong> center by her doctor after two months of serious <strong>pain in her head, neck and shoulder<\/strong> primarily at the angle of her neck and shoulder and in her temples. The pain was exhausting her, affecting her school work and her life! She was athletic, a conscientious student and not a complainer.\u00a0 Her concerned parents said she had just been &#8220;toughing it out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There had been no initiating event. It started with mono-like symptoms, a sore throat, extreme fatigue, but no temperature. She had been tested for mononucleosis, Lyme disease and infections. There were no findings except a mild anemia. An MRI was normal.<\/p>\n<p>Katy saw a Pediatrician and a Neurologist and was given medications to control her symptoms, but they became worse. Chiropractic adjustments and passive muscle stretching helped a little. It was postulated that it was a <strong>muscular problem caused by a viral infection<\/strong>. She last saw a Physiatrist (a rehabilitation specialist), who referred her to me for <strong>Neuromuscular Therapy <\/strong>treatments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Headache pain is a surprisingly common complaint for teenagers that can be prevented and alleviated with a few simple steps. Katie H. was a healthy eighteen year old girl who was referred to my metro-Boston Neuromuscular Therapy center by her doctor after two months of serious pain in her head, neck and shoulder primarily at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,30],"tags":[289,290,845,859],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headaches","category-neck-pain","tag-head-pain","tag-headache","tag-neck-pain","tag-shoulder-pain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4542,"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/4542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}