Hi my name is Dr. Susan Jewell and on behalf of Expert Village today I am going to tell you how to recognize and how to treat headaches. Now in this clip we are going to talk about scalp calisthenics and I am going to show you a simple technique that you can do in the privacy of your home whenever you feel that you have a lot of stress, pain, and pressure in your head or you feel like there is an oncoming migraine onset and this is just one of the many ways that you can help yourself in reducing the severity or intensity of the pain from that headache. Now to do a scalp callisthenic what you do is just find a place that is quiet and I recommend that you put on some relaxing music and this may help. Basically you should feel that you are not having any distractions and just relax your whole body, specifically the neck and head region and then what you do is very simply this, what it entails is to use all the fingers of both hands and basically use the soft fleshy pad of each of the extremities of your fingers and you can just basically massage the whole of your scalp. When you do that, when you massage your scalp, you should do that on a regular basis too, it also besides reducing the tension on the muscles around the skull area or the head area, it also increases the blood circulation and delivers more oxygen to the brain and that will also help to reduce the occurrence of the tension headaches. What you do is stretch our, the fingers and then bilaterally on both sides of the skull you just work it slowly but what you do is you have to do circular motion when you are pressing on your scalp. I turn my head this way so just look at what I am doing and you just press on both areas of the scalp so that with medium pressure you just do the circular motion on both sides of the scalp so you are working your way with a circular motion with sort of medium to hard pressure all the way around your skull meticulously and it's good to do it slowly and sometimes besides the circular motion is to do a long sweeping action around the skull. You need to use your thumb as well because your thumb can apply a lot of pressure as well so do the long circular motion all the way around and then little baby circular motions all around your skull and while you do that you are not talking of course but just relaxing with your eyes closed. So that is a scalp technique that actually can help you to reduce the tension headaches or the migraine headaches.