Can Chiropractic Care Help with Headaches?

Nearly everybody has had headache pain, which is generally nothing more than a nuisance. But for others, headache pain is severe and disabling. Thankfully, most headaches are not the result of serious illness. However, the location and type of symptoms help determine both cause and effective treatment. So, knowing the type of headache you experience empowers you toward true healing and resolution. 

The most common types of headaches covered today are tension, cervicogenic, and migraine:

• Tension headaches strike when the muscles connecting the head, neck, and shoulders tighten creating dull, vice-like pain on both sides of the head. These muscles can become overworked and stressed, causing them to strain and irritate surrounding tissues leading to pain. Triggers often involve stress, lack of sleep, low blood sugar, environmental toxins, and abrupt cessation from caffeine or prescription drugs. 

• Cervicogenic headaches originate from dysfunctional tissues in the head or neck, like the vertebral joints, discs, and nerves. Repetitive movements, poor posture, and sudden unexpected movements contribute to strain and degeneration resulting in pain. The associated poor mobility compounds stress to the head and neck creating pain and furthering the cycle.

• Migraines come on when supersensitive nerve endings in the brain create pain. More severe and debilitating, migraine pain is usually a throbbing or pulsing on one side of the head. Often involved is nausea, vomiting, and sensitivity to light and sound. Many of those triggers for tension headaches—like stress, hunger, fatigue, and lack of sleep—can also cause a migraine headache. 

Dr. Luke can often significantly reduce if not permanently resolve pain from these types of headaches. Weakness, stiffness, and decreased contraction are often found in the upper trapezius, levator scapulae, sternocleidomastoid, scalenes, suboccipitals, pectoralis major and minor, and the deep cervical flexors. By treating the muscular dysfunction found in the head, neck, and shoulders of headache patients immediate and lasting improvements are made. 

Stop struggling with headache and migraine pain, contact Dr. Luke for safe, effective, and natural treatment today.

Seek a medical doctor if your headache is unusually server, steadily worsens, is following a head injury, or is accompanied by fever, stiff neck, confusion, decreased alertness or memory, numbness, weakness, slurred speech, or worsens with cough/sneeze.

For more information about how chiropractic care can help with headaches, or to speak to us about your symptoms and concerns, please contact M Powered Chiropractic in Georgetown, Texas to get in touch with our experienced and knowledgeable team today. Call (512) 548-4355 to schedule an appointment.