29/05/2026
If you work at a desk, drive regularly, or spend time looking down at your phone — this is worth knowing.
The top three joints of your cervical spine sit right at the base of your skull. They're small, they're load-bearing, and they're directly connected to the part of your nervous system that processes head pain.
Hours of sustained forward posture — chin dropped, shoulders rolled, screen too low — gradually winds those joints up. Movement reduces. Tension builds. The signals your brain receives from that area become distorted.
And your brain reads that distortion as a headache.
It's not dramatic. It builds slowly. A headache that shows up by mid-afternoon. One that's there when you wake up. One you've started thinking of as just normal for you.
It's not normal. It's a pattern — and it usually has a source.
If this sounds like your week, it's worth getting the top of your spine looked at before it becomes your year.
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