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You stretch your neck. It eases for a while. Then your headache returns.

Does that mean you need a stronger stretch? Not necessarily. Temporary relief doesn’t tell you what’s causing the headache.

Before your assessment, notice:
• When your headache starts.
• Whether moving your neck changes it.
• What other symptoms come with it.

Bring those clues to your appointment. Your assessment should help explain what needs attention and why the plan fits you.

In his guide, Logan Merritt explains how neck and myofascial pain can fit into the picture, and when physical therapy, dry needling, manual therapy or massage may be considered.

Save this for your next visit. Read the guide through the link in our bio: “Your headache. Your neck?”

Physio+ | Lindale + Tyler
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General education, not a diagnosis. New dizziness or vision changes need medical advice. A sudden severe headache, new weakness, trouble speaking or loss of vision requires emergency care.

Alli R.’s review describes help with neck pain, not a headache-treatment outcome. The photo is illustrative and does not depict Alli.

You rest. You stretch. You try to sit straight. Still sore?

The advice you hear may be missing part of the picture. Swipe through five questions about your back-pain routine, what each tip misses, and what you can do instead.

Your symptoms, abilities and goals matter. Physio+ offers one hour, one on one with a doctor of physical therapy in Lindale and Tyler.

General education, not a diagnosis or a personal exercise prescription. The photos show real Physio+ care, not patients making these mistakes.

With back pain, new bladder or bowel changes or numbness around the groin or saddle area require emergency care. New or worsening weakness, rapidly worsening pain, or fever with back pain needs prompt medical assessment.

Read the full guide through the link in our bio → Back pain and sciatica treatment

If sitting is the worst part of your back pain, stretching is not the fix.

Sitting is the highest sustained disc load of any normal position. That is why the desk, the drive, and the recliner all flare the same ache, and why the stretch you do at 9pm is gone by Tuesday.

A back loaded like that all day does not need more range pulled out of it. It needs the stiff segments found and freed, and the right positions to hold between visits.

Logan Merritt, PT, DPT, NCS, Cert. DN, founder, at our Lindale clinic.

Most back pain and sciatica we see in East Texas gets better without surgery. No referral needed to start in Texas. Link in bio.

Back pain in Lindale does not mean bed rest or a surgeon first.

This is a curtsy lunge on straps: load the hips so the low back is not doing all the work. Coached one on one by Cameron Berry, PT, DPT, CSCS, at Fusion Athletic Club.

Most back and sciatica cases we see get better with a plan, not an operation. No referral needed in Texas.

How back pain treatment works, week to week:
https://physioplustx.com/conditions/back-pain