The Pain Is in Your Head. THE CAUSE IS NOT.
Chronic headaches and migraines are rarely caused by the head. They're caused by sustained fascial restriction through the shoulders, neck, jaw, and cranial base — tissue holding pressure that the head has to absorb. Release the source, and the cycle breaks.
You've Been Told to MANAGE IT. Not to RESOLVE IT.
Chronic headaches and migraines get managed, not resolved. Medication dulls the pain. Injections paralyze the muscles. Nerve ablations burn the pain pathway. Dietary protocols hunt for triggers. And millions of people still spend years — sometimes decades — tracking symptoms, avoiding triggers, and pushing through days lost to pain.
Here's what conventional care misses: the structures that produce most chronic headaches live outside the head. Fascial restrictions through the neck, shoulders, upper back, jaw, and cranial base compress nerves, restrict circulation, pull on the dura, and load pressure into the head from below. By the time a headache shows up, it's already the end of a chain that started hours, days, or years earlier.
Release the chain, and the head finally stops getting the bill.
- Daily or near-daily headaches that no medication has resolved
- Migraines with light, sound, or motion sensitivity that derail entire days
- Tension headaches, cervicogenic headaches, or pressure headaches
- Post-injury or post-concussion headaches that never fully went away
"I've worked with clients who had daily headaches for thirty years. In almost every case, no one had ever examined the shoulders, neck, and cranial base as the source. Once we did, the headaches stopped — not because we treated the head, but because we finally stopped asking the head to absorb what the rest of the body was refusing to release."
— Michael Sudbury, LMT — Founder
Why Most Headache Treatment FAILS.
A short message from Michael on why medication, injections, and trigger-tracking so often fail to resolve chronic headaches — and what actually does.
Three Steps. ONE DEFINED END.
Find Where the Pressure Comes From
A postural assessment traces the chain — jaw tension, cranial base restriction, shoulder posture, upper back mobility, diaphragm function — to find where the load on your head is actually coming from. Most clients say this session alone explains years of "mystery" triggers.
Release the Source, Not the Symptom
Gentle, sustained myofascial pressure unwinds fascial restrictions through the neck, shoulders, jaw, and upper back — the structures actually producing the pressure, pulling, and compression that trigger your headaches. The cycle finally has a chance to break.
Own the Result
You leave every protocol with a self-care practice that keeps the work holding. Specific self-release techniques for your jaw, neck, and shoulders. Movement patterns that stop the tension from rebuilding. No weekly dependency. The goal is days — then weeks, then months — where you simply forget your head hurts.
Learn more about the full Method and the science of myofascial release.
Real People. REAL RESULTS.
"Jenny had suffered daily headaches with nausea and vomiting since before she was a teenager — thirty years, most mornings lost to it. She didn't even come to Release Works for the headaches; she came in for posture and shoulder mobility. As her shoulders and neck softened, the circulation and pressure dynamics in her head changed. The daily headaches stopped. That got her attention."
Jenny
Daily Headaches · 30 Years
Outcome: Daily headaches gone after 30 years
"Shauna had been told her headaches were hormonal, then stress-related, then neurological. She had been on four different medications simultaneously. Her postural assessment revealed chronic fascial restrictions through her shoulders, neck, and cranial base that were producing sustained pressure on the structures generating her headaches. Within six weeks, the daily headaches stopped."
Shauna
Daily Headaches · 8 Years
Outcome: Daily headaches gone in 6 weeks
"Her life was derailed by an unrelenting headache and dizziness that came with a "sensation of an ice pick at the base of her head." Four months of tests, doctor visits, and recommended interventions had either done nothing or made it worse. As the tight, bracing tissue through her head, neck, and body softened, she got her life back piece by piece."
Anonymous
Post-Injury Headache With Dizziness
Outcome: Pain and dizziness resolved after months of failed treatment
Not Another Protocol. A DIFFERENT SOURCE.
The Release Works Method of Healing™ addresses the fascial system — the continuous web of connective tissue that surrounds every muscle, bone, organ, and nerve in your body, including every structure in your head, neck, and shoulders. Conventional headache care focuses on the pain pathway: block the nerve, relax the muscle, change the chemistry. But the tissue producing most chronic headache pressure is the connective tissue binding the head to the rest of the body — and it's largely invisible to the interventions that get prescribed. We don't chase the headache. We address what's putting the pressure on the head in the first place. That is why our results hold when others don't.
Dig Deeper ON HEADACHES.
30 Years of Daily Headaches — Gone in Weeks
Jenny suffered nausea and vomiting from headaches since before her teens. Here's what changed when we stopped treating her head.
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Read Article →EducationUnderstanding the Fascial System: An In-Depth Exploration
Your fascia is a continuous web of connective tissue shaping you from head to toe. When it restricts, pain, stiffness, and dysfunction follow.
Read Article →Frequently ASKED.
My doctor says my migraines are hormonal / neurological / genetic. Can you still help?+
Often, yes. We work alongside medical care, not against it. Even when a headache has a confirmed underlying trigger, the fascial restrictions through the neck, shoulders, and cranial base almost always add pressure and load that amplify or sustain the pain. Reducing that load reduces both the frequency and intensity of episodes for many clients — regardless of the original cause.
I've had headaches for years or decades. Is it too late?+
No. Some of our most dramatic results have been with people who'd given up. Jenny came in for a different reason after thirty years of daily headaches — the headaches stopped as a side effect of the work. Shauna had eight years of daily headaches and was on four medications; they resolved in six weeks. Duration is not a disqualifier.
Is this like a massage for my head or neck?+
No. Massage works on muscle tissue. We work on the fascial system — the continuous connective tissue network that surrounds every muscle, bone, and nerve in your head, neck, and shoulders. Rather than kneading a sore muscle, we find and release the chain of restrictions pulling on and compressing the structures that generate your headaches.
Will it hurt?+
No. The Barnes MFR Approach we use is gentle enough for the most pain-sensitive clients — including people in active migraine. Real release happens when the nervous system is shown it no longer needs to brace, not by forcing tissue that's guarding. Clients often describe the work as deeply relaxing, not painful.
Can you help with migraines, not just tension headaches?+
Yes. We work with tension headaches, cervicogenic headaches, migraines with aura, chronic daily headaches, post-concussion headaches, and pressure-related headaches. Because the fascial system sits underneath most of these patterns, a single approach can address a wide range of headache types. We don't guarantee specific outcomes, but this is core to what we do.
Is this covered by insurance?+
We don't bill insurance. Many clients who've exhausted what insurance will cover find us precisely because nothing else worked. Financing is available for the 90-day Vitality in Motion program.
This Is NOT For You If…
Not a fit if:
- ×You're looking for a medication swap or a faster-acting pill
- ×You want someone else to resolve this without your active participation
- ×You'd rather keep chasing triggers than address the tissue holding the pressure
- ×You're unwilling to adjust the jaw clenching, posture, and stress patterns that keep rebuilding the tension
A fit if:
- You're willing to take an active role in your own recovery
- You're done with interventions that dull the pain without resolving the source
- You can accept that real change takes consistent work — and you're ready to do it
- You want days, weeks, and months where you simply forget your head hurts
The Conversation Is Free. THE CHANGE IS REAL.
A 15-minute phone call or 30-minute in-person visit. No pressure. No obligation. Just clarity on whether the Release Works Method is the right next step for your headaches.
Release Works does not diagnose, treat, or prescribe. The Release Works Method of Healing™ is a movement restoration practice. Consult your physician for medical advice.
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