Headache
Regarding common health ailments, few diseases are more common and frustrating than headaches, 9 out of 10 Australians suffer from headaches and Caboolture community would not be an exception to this. Headaches seem to attack us when we are most stressed and are often characterised by severe pains.
Pain relief drugs are temporary at best and most people feel that the pain simply can’t go away no matter how hard they try, but there is hope for headache victims. Through chiropractic care, the severity and frequency of your headache can be reduced. Statistics show that 50% of the adult population contract one form of headache or the other at least once a year. Headache is associated with societal and personal burdens of pain, damaged life quality, disability and financial cost.
Studies also show that many headaches result from misalignments of vertebra, what is known as subluxation of the spine. This misalignment of the vertebra can cause the muscles and the nerves to become inflamed and irritated. Chiropractic adjustments helps correct this, which means that your spinal vertebrae function as they should. The result is that the pain, soreness, stiffness and irritation disappear. A 2011 report in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics (JMPT) found that Chiropractic care, including spinal manipulation, improves migraine and cervico-genic headaches.
Apart from reducing the severity of headache and migraines, a patient can also benefit from regular chiropractic care as it reduces the frequency of headache occurrence.
Most people do not realise that their poor posture can also contribute to headaches. When you sit hunched over your computer, tablet or phone the whole day, this exerts a lot of strain on your back muscles and neck. This increases the chance of misaligned vertebra.
Many patients report significant reduction of their headaches after several chiropractic adjustments. The reason for this is due to restoration of proper alignment to the vertebral column reducing abnormal pressure on the vertebrae. In chronic headache victims, adjustments applied to the neck leads to significant improvement. No treatment can match the effectiveness with which
adjustments restore the vertebral column.
It is also worth noting that your chiropractor will also talk to you about the correct lifestyle choices that you need to make to reduce your headache. Studies show that lack of exercise, certain foods and poor posture can increase your chances of being attacked by headache. Also, your chiropractor will warn you about triggers like anxiety and depression and stress so that you may keep headaches at bay.
Consult your chiropractor over the kind of lifestyle you are currently leading, your headache could be caused by it. A chiropractor will help you revert to healthier habits which could not only alleviate your headaches but in the long run help your health in many other ways.
Pain relief drugs are temporary at best and most people feel that the pain simply can’t go away no matter how hard they try, but there is hope for headache victims. Through chiropractic care, the severity and frequency of your headache can be reduced. Statistics show that 50% of the adult population contract one form of headache or the other at least once a year. Headache is associated with societal and personal burdens of pain, damaged life quality, disability and financial cost.
Studies also show that many headaches result from misalignments of vertebra, what is known as subluxation of the spine. This misalignment of the vertebra can cause the muscles and the nerves to become inflamed and irritated. Chiropractic adjustments helps correct this, which means that your spinal vertebrae function as they should. The result is that the pain, soreness, stiffness and irritation disappear. A 2011 report in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics (JMPT) found that Chiropractic care, including spinal manipulation, improves migraine and cervico-genic headaches.
Apart from reducing the severity of headache and migraines, a patient can also benefit from regular chiropractic care as it reduces the frequency of headache occurrence.
Most people do not realise that their poor posture can also contribute to headaches. When you sit hunched over your computer, tablet or phone the whole day, this exerts a lot of strain on your back muscles and neck. This increases the chance of misaligned vertebra.
Many patients report significant reduction of their headaches after several chiropractic adjustments. The reason for this is due to restoration of proper alignment to the vertebral column reducing abnormal pressure on the vertebrae. In chronic headache victims, adjustments applied to the neck leads to significant improvement. No treatment can match the effectiveness with which
adjustments restore the vertebral column.
It is also worth noting that your chiropractor will also talk to you about the correct lifestyle choices that you need to make to reduce your headache. Studies show that lack of exercise, certain foods and poor posture can increase your chances of being attacked by headache. Also, your chiropractor will warn you about triggers like anxiety and depression and stress so that you may keep headaches at bay.
Consult your chiropractor over the kind of lifestyle you are currently leading, your headache could be caused by it. A chiropractor will help you revert to healthier habits which could not only alleviate your headaches but in the long run help your health in many other ways.