Posted by tony (4.33.109.9) on January 06, 2000 at 17:01:38:
In Reply to: Ice Packs posted by Bruce on December 10, 1998 at 23:22:39:
You are probably getting relief from a tight sternocliedomastoid muscle. Ice makes a contracting muscle contract even tighter - that is why it hurts at first. But it can't keep it up and finally releases. I wish more people knew that headache relief was just as far away as their icebox...