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Drawings of Neck with Muscles, Bones:
Seen from the back.
Seen from the back.
Headaches: Can Chiropractic Help?
The throbbing, aching sensation of a splitting headache is suffered by millions of people each day. As you read this, over 50 million of your fellow Americans have a headache. About 12 million have headaches EVERY DAY! And over 28 million suffer from migraines.
These numbers are amazing. That means that roughly one in six people you pass by today is likely to have a headache!
Good news: we may be able to help.
ProCare Chiropractic Clinic of Bangor has a VERY HIGH success rate with non-twisting chiropractic care of migraines and tension-type headaches!!
Cost
A study on migraines, released early in 2009, shows that the financial burden of migraines on families and employers totals billions of dollars yearly.
And there is a personal, non-money cost of time lost from family, friends, and relationships.
Headaches can badly affect your happiness, your job and your family life. Even if your headache or migraine isn't bad enough to drive you into a quiet, dark room, it's still very hard to have fun and enjoy life and family when you have nagging headaches or neck pain.
Some Causes
Many things can cause a headache, including neck problems, sinus problems, dehydration, sleep problems, alcohol use, or problems with body organs. The most common cause is muscle tension or tightness.
Trauma or accidents (such as car accidents, falls or near-falls, where you don't actually hit the ground) that aren't ID'd and treated, overuse, poor posture (as from extended computer use), habitually sleeping with chin tucked...these can all cause muscle tightness and joint locking, which, in turn, can cause pressure on nerves, which, in turn, can cause headaches or migraines.
The brain itself doesn't "feel" pain, but there are many nerves, veins and arteries wrapped around the head. Cramps, tightness or spasms in the muscles of the neck and scalp (especially at the base of the skull) can put pressure on nerves in the area, causing pain at the base of the skull (top of the neck), over the ears, or over the eyes. You may also experience neck pain and/or stiffness, which can either come before or during a headache.
Headaches caused by problems in the neck are called "cervicogenic," meaning they start in the cervical spine or neck. This can be from misalignment of the vertebrae and/or lack of motion in the neck joints, especially at the top.
Chiropractic care helps headache pain by reducing these misalignments, motion problems, and nerve pressure.
See the details of how this could happen on the diagram below:
Possible Cures
Pain relief is 100% important. Also, the cause of the pain has to be identified and treated, or the headaches will continue.
Many people resort to medication for pain control. Pain relievers can help, but if the pain comes from joint locking and nerve pressure, and this locking/pressure isn't relieved, the problem will likely remain.
Biomechanical problems like that rarely respond to a chemical solution - they need a biomechanical solution, like chiropractic care.
Help is often possible, and we have achieved incredible results for our patients with headaches from many different causes. ProCare Chiropractic in Bangor has a success rate with headache and migraine that is close to 90%.
Why suffer? Ask us how the ArthroStim's multiple impulse technology at ProCare Chiropractic of Bangor can be a part of successfully treating your headaches.
The throbbing, aching sensation of a splitting headache is suffered by millions of people each day. As you read this, over 50 million of your fellow Americans have a headache. About 12 million have headaches EVERY DAY! And over 28 million suffer from migraines.
These numbers are amazing. That means that roughly one in six people you pass by today is likely to have a headache!
Good news: we may be able to help.
ProCare Chiropractic Clinic of Bangor has a VERY HIGH success rate with non-twisting chiropractic care of migraines and tension-type headaches!!
Cost
A study on migraines, released early in 2009, shows that the financial burden of migraines on families and employers totals billions of dollars yearly.
And there is a personal, non-money cost of time lost from family, friends, and relationships.
Headaches can badly affect your happiness, your job and your family life. Even if your headache or migraine isn't bad enough to drive you into a quiet, dark room, it's still very hard to have fun and enjoy life and family when you have nagging headaches or neck pain.
Some Causes
Many things can cause a headache, including neck problems, sinus problems, dehydration, sleep problems, alcohol use, or problems with body organs. The most common cause is muscle tension or tightness.
Trauma or accidents (such as car accidents, falls or near-falls, where you don't actually hit the ground) that aren't ID'd and treated, overuse, poor posture (as from extended computer use), habitually sleeping with chin tucked...these can all cause muscle tightness and joint locking, which, in turn, can cause pressure on nerves, which, in turn, can cause headaches or migraines.
The brain itself doesn't "feel" pain, but there are many nerves, veins and arteries wrapped around the head. Cramps, tightness or spasms in the muscles of the neck and scalp (especially at the base of the skull) can put pressure on nerves in the area, causing pain at the base of the skull (top of the neck), over the ears, or over the eyes. You may also experience neck pain and/or stiffness, which can either come before or during a headache.
Headaches caused by problems in the neck are called "cervicogenic," meaning they start in the cervical spine or neck. This can be from misalignment of the vertebrae and/or lack of motion in the neck joints, especially at the top.
Chiropractic care helps headache pain by reducing these misalignments, motion problems, and nerve pressure.
See the details of how this could happen on the diagram below:
Possible Cures
Pain relief is 100% important. Also, the cause of the pain has to be identified and treated, or the headaches will continue.
Many people resort to medication for pain control. Pain relievers can help, but if the pain comes from joint locking and nerve pressure, and this locking/pressure isn't relieved, the problem will likely remain.
Biomechanical problems like that rarely respond to a chemical solution - they need a biomechanical solution, like chiropractic care.
Help is often possible, and we have achieved incredible results for our patients with headaches from many different causes. ProCare Chiropractic in Bangor has a success rate with headache and migraine that is close to 90%.
Why suffer? Ask us how the ArthroStim's multiple impulse technology at ProCare Chiropractic of Bangor can be a part of successfully treating your headaches.
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