Headaches/Migraines
Repetitive activities, poor posture, and stress can destroy your ability to make decisions or carry on with your day to day life. While many people may experience occasional headaches, others can experience headaches frequently. Frequent headaches not only negatively affects your ability to sleep but can also come in your way of day to day activities.
Different Types of Headaches
According to the World Health Organization, nearly everyone experiences a headache. While some people may experience episodic headaches, others can experience chronic headaches.
- Episodic Headaches
The episodic headaches can occur every so often or just once in a while. These headaches often result from stressful events. They can occur for a short period of time and go away on their own once the stressful event is over.
- Chronic Headaches
Chronic headaches are more consistent and can occur almost every day. Moreover, they can last for a few days at a stretch, and having a pain management plan is important. A person experiencing chronic headaches often complains of tightness on both sides of the head and the base of the skull.
The most common types of headaches include:
- Tension Headache – If you are experiencing a dull, aching sensation in your head and tenderness around your forehead, neck and shoulder muscles, you are having a tension headache.
- Cluster Headache – Cluster headache is characterized by piercing pain that occurs behind one eye or on one side of the face. Sometimes, the headache is followed by swelling, flushing, or sweating.
- Migraine – People who are having migraine headaches can experience pain for a few days. The migraine headache significantly limits a person’s ability to carry out their activities of daily living.
- Hormone Headache – Women often experience headaches linked to hormone fluctuations. Pregnancy, birth control pills, and menstruation can affect the estrogen levels in the body which leads to headaches.
- Hypertension Headache – If you have high blood pressure, you can experience a headache. This kind of headache often signals an emergency and it is important to get in touch with your physician immediately.
If you are experiencing a headache, you are not alone. Nine in every 10 Americans experience a headache every day. While some experience a throbbing pain others experience debilitating pain.
However, what you do to treat the pain often differ from person to person. While some people choose to pop a pill, others lie down and hope the pain will go away.
What Triggers a Headache?
A person can experience headache owing to a number of causes and triggers. This includes environmental stimuli, food, and behavior. Approximately 5 percent of all headaches are warning signals by the body. The remaining 95 percent are primary headaches and are not caused by a disease but the headache, on its own, is the primary concern.
Muscle tension in the neck is often associated with primary headaches. As more and more people nowadays engage in sedentary activities than in the past, this increases the chance of joint irritation and muscle tension in the neck and upper back causing the head to ache.
Chiropractic Care?
Chiropractic care is a better alternative to medicines and surgery. It is a non-invasive treatment option that uses spinal manipulation techniques to treat headaches and migraines. According to a report in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics (JMPT), it was found that chiropractic care interventions help improve the outcome of acute and chronic neck pain thus benefiting people who experience headache owing to neck pain.
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How Chiropractors Can Help?
Chiropractors can assess, diagnose, and manage primary headaches. Evidence suggests that chiropractic care can be effective in treating tension headaches and migraine headaches. The treatment option often includes:
Manual Therapy
We have Certified, Licensed Manual Therapists who help treat patients at our clinic. Manual therapy enhances circulation, increases metabolism, enhances joint and muscle function, and promotes the healing process.
Laser Therapy
This new technology offers advanced pain relief and expedited healing times through a process known as photobiostimulation. Laser treatment is one of the fastest ways to allow injured tissues to heal at an accelerated rate.
Exercise and Rehabilitation Therapy
Exercise therapy helps break up fibrotic scar tissue and increase the elasticity and strength of the supporting muscles. A program of carefully designed stretches and exercises helps restore better tone and range of motion to the damaged tissues.
Ultrasound
Ultrasound is a therapeutic treatment using high-frequency sound waves to administer into the region of soft-tissue injuries. Ultrasound shoots millions of sound waves into the tissue to penetrate the tissue deep in the body, creating a heat response that increases blood supply, increases oxygen supply and decrease swelling in the area.
Electro Muscle Stimulation
This is a special form of electrical current that is administered at the site of the soft-tissue injury, especially muscles for blocking pain. Its function is to reduce pain, help decrease swelling promotes general muscle tone, increases oxygen and blood supply to the injured areas and speeds the healing process.
Other Ways To Manage Headache
There are other ways through which you can ease tension headache.
- Limit the time you spend looking at your computer or other electronic devices.
- Sleep on your back or your side with a body pillow.
- Indulge in some kind of exercise thrice a week.
- Try chiropractic care, massage therapy and other physical therapies instead of opting for medications.
Chiropractors undergo extensive training to help their patients get relief. They can take the right steps to relieve the problems that may be causing you headaches.
Dr. Grant has been in practice for over 25 years and is a third-generation chiropractor. He is board-certified with the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners.
Dr. Grant has treated many professional, Olympic, college, and high school athletes. However, his passion is to treat all patients equally. Whether you are an Olympic skier or housewife, his desire for a successful and healthy outcome is the same.
Looking to get your chiropractic treatment started?
Just visit Dr. James Grant at the Accident and Injury Clinic in Salt Lake City. You can also call now for a free consultation. (801) 663-7685!
