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Dr Jerry Simon June 9th, 2025

Migraines: When Medicine Isn’t Enough

When Headaches or Migraines Just Won’t Go Away…

Headache? Take a pill.
Stress headache? Reduce stress… and take a pill.
Tension headache? Try a chiropractic adjustment—and take a pill.
Migraine? Get a diagnosis… and take a pill.

Still no real answers? No lasting relief? Sound familiar?

Millions of people suffer from recurring headaches and migraines—whether tension-related, stress-induced, or full-blown chronic migraines. So why is something so common still so hard to treat?

If your headache or migraine symptoms are mild, severe, or chronic, chances are you’ve been prescribed pain relief medications again and again. But pills only mask the symptoms—they don’t fix the root cause.

If you or someone you know lives near Stamford, Connecticut—or anywhere in New York, Massachusetts, or the Northeast—and is still searching for real, lasting headache or migraine relief, this might be the solution you’ve been missing.

This Migraine Awareness Month, we’re spotlighting a little-known but powerful alternative approach to treating headaches and migraines—one that’s already helped thousands finally feel better. It could help you too.

In medicine, typically this is how it goes:

  1. Diagnose the problem
  2. Determine the actual cause
  3. Recommend treatment directed at the cause, which has been scientifically tested.
  4. Final–Cure the problem!

However, headaches, in one form or another, affect as many as 60 million Americans– specifically MIGRAINES! They have many symptoms like pain, dizziness, fatigue, sensitivity to light and sound, BUT have NO OBJECTIVE TEST.

Typical diagnosis is based on the patient’s report of symptoms, and that is where the problem starts.  There are many types of headaches, but since there are no objective tests for migraine headaches, the doctors don’t know what they are shooting at, so what we mostly get is treatment for symptoms like pain pills that don’t address the cause, so they don’t solve the problem.

Stomach ulcers used to be one of medicine’s great frustrations.  Doctors thought the cause of stomach ulcers was stress, lifestyle, and diet; little progress was made in effective treatment.  Doctors thought the acidity in our stomach, which helps to digest food, made it impossible for bacteria to live there.  But in 1983, Dr. Barry Marshall and Dr. Robin Warren discovered that stomach ulcers were actually caused by bacteria called H. pylori in the stomachs of ulcer sufferers, and that antibiotic treatment could cure the ulcers. Problem solved!  That discovery earned them a Nobel Prize in medicine in 1985!

But now in 2025, there still is no objective test for migraines and only hit and miss symptomatic treatments with lots of side effects because Migraines are thought to be caused by stress, lifestyle, and diet. Sounds a lot like ulcers decades ago!

Part of the problem is that there is a lack of communication between all the different doctors who treat patients with head, neck, or facial pain– and like the four blind men who examined the elephant, we are all victims of our training.

So let’s apply the scientific method to what we do know.

First Fact:  Most Neurologists agree that many headaches are due to hyperactive muscles.  Muscles wrap around your head and neck, so people can experience pain in their head from the hyperactive muscles.

Second Fact: Dentists agree that some people clench and grind their teeth, and that muscle activity can overwork muscles.

Third Fact: Chiropractors agree that if your back and neck are out of alignment, it can lead to problems and pain.

And EVERYONE knows that in order to swallow, which we have to do 24/7 or we would die, you have to bite your teeth together.

The problem is that we had not put all this together in one uniform cohesive process that can be explained, tested, and used to develop a predictable treatment until now.  So here is the unified theory, along with a diagnostic method and treatment plan that is 95% predictable and verifiable for many patients with head, neck, or facial pain.

  1. Since a patient MUST bite together to swallow, which happens 24/7, day and night,  they must do that thousands of times a day. If their teeth do not fit easily together, they must find a bite position where their teeth do fit thousands of times a day, kind of like a key has to fit into a lock; if it does not fit, you need to jiggle the key until it fits. Clapping your hands is simple and easy compared to threading a needle, which requires much more muscle coordination and energy, and muscle hyperactivity can cause pain.
  2. This off-balanced jaw position that many people get forced into requires much more muscle energy to balance and becomes neurologically annoying and triggers tooth clenching and grinding in a well-intentioned effort to make the teeth fit easily, which causes even more muscle hyperactivity and more pain in the muscles that wrap around your head and neck.
  3. The only way to stop the cycle of clenching and grinding is to eliminate the wobbling bite so the muscles can relax, but the muscles cannot relax unless the teeth can fit together, but the teeth won’t fit unless the muscles can relax.
  4. The only way to break the cycle is to get the teeth to fit so the muscles can relax, but hyperactive muscles won’t relax until the teeth fit, so the cycle goes on and on.
  5. The solution to this cycle is Dr. Simons’ Best-Bite Discluder that temporarily neutralizes the uneven bite so the jaws can center and the muscles relax and stop the pain.  When the jaw is  centered, either the pain stops, so we know that the  pain is due to the unbalanced bite, or the pain does not stop, so we know that the pain is from something else
  6. The issue is NOT stress or lifestyle… it is an uneven bite, which can be proven within minutes.

This simple, non-invasive test takes less than 10 minutes and can quickly confirm whether pain relief is due to hyperactive muscles triggered by an uneven bite.

The solution? It is to eliminate the uneven bite so the pain will not return.  This can be done by reshaping the teeth, like a locksmith who polishes the points on keys that do not fit.

1 - A correct bite: jaws are centered, and teeth fit.

2 - An uneven bite: To make the teeth fit, the jaw stretches, causing it to pop out of its socket.

3 - The jaws constantly shift for teeth to fit, which causes muscles to ache

4 - Best Bite Discluder guides teeth to center jaws so the muscles can relax, relieving pain

Dr. Jerry Simon, Leading Expert in Treatment For Headaches

Dr. Jerry Simon has given thousands of patients their lives back simply by correcting their bite. 75% of head, neck, and facial pain cases are due to an uneven bite. If you suffer from any headaches without answers or lasting solutions, then it’s time to check your bite! 

You could start feeling relief as early as today!

Schedule your consultation with Dr. Jerry Simon today: Call 203-314-6171.
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