Chiropractic treatment for migraines, Suppose you are a migraine sufferer; you know just how painful and debilitating it can be when a migraine takes hold. Of course, not everyone has the same experience, but pain is usually the main feature. One migraine headache has the potential to ruin your day completely, but there are some tips you can follow to make it a little easier.
What Is a Migraine?
If you’ve been diagnosed with migraines, you get headaches that last from between 4 and 72 hours, with pain rated moderate to severe. To be described as a migraine, the headache must have two of the following things:
- Moderate to sharp pain
- One-sided location
- Pulsating pain
- Made more serious by regular activity like walking
It need also have at least one of the following:
- Nausea and vomiting
- Sensitiveness to light and sound
Once you’ve had four attacks with these standards and the headaches aren’t connected to a more severe health condition, you’ll be diagnosed as a migraine patient. Many migraine patients will see characters in their field of vision before a migraine comes on.
Important Prevention Tips
Chiropractic Treatment for Migraine
Spinal adjustments that are intended to relieve stress and pressure on your body are one of the initial chiropractic treatments for migraine headaches.
Your spine is ample of nerves, bones, blood vessels, tendons, muscles, and ligaments, and when your discs are not in order, it can create a host of difficulties.
Once the problem is addressed from various angles, you’ll be able to enjoy fewer episodes and reduce the possible amount of pain medication you usually take. With ongoing treatment and care from a New You chiropractic doctor, you may be able to eliminate your migraines
Lifestyle Modifications to Help Prevent Headaches
Our team believes in a multifaceted way to headache treatment, which involves knowing your triggers. We’ll work to understand your situation to help you find the reason for your headaches.
Some typical reasons for headache pain are:
- Stress
- Long hours at a computer or watching on your phone
- Some foods
- Your environment
- Insomnia
When we discover that some foods or environmental triggers bring on your headaches, we can support you in making minor changes in your lifestyle to ward off these triggers.
Tension headaches can usually be attached to spending a long time in one posture. StaringFor example, looking down at your phone or operating on a computer can build tissue tension in your neck, creating “tech neck” and making you more sensitive to headaches.
Extended periods in the same posture can hurt joints and build muscle tension in your upper back as well. So, in addition to your suggested chiropractic care plan, our team often recommends that you take a break every 30-60 minutes to walk around, change positions, and help ward off pain.
Overall, lifestyle tweaks matched with chiropractic adjustments can make a significant difference to help reduce your chronic headache pain.
The next time you experience a headache, think twice about taking a pain reliever. Rather, call our office, or request an appointment with our handy online booking tool.
