Headaches are a sign that something is wrong! if you suffer from headaches you should consult your health care professional. As a Headache sufferer do inform yourself and look into drug free headache treatments as safe alternative for your headache management and headache relief.
Chiropractic is a suitable form of natural health care for headaches management. Chiropractic care does not involve the use of drugs. Chiropractic care works on the spine, muscles, skeleton. The chiropractor may also treat aspects of conditions amenable to manual therapy.
Chiropractic care for headaches provides a natural, drug free treatment with proven results. Each week, there are some 220000 visits to Australian chiropractors for various reasons including headaches and migraines.
If you prefer to avoid the use of chemical drugs for your headache or migraine management then do consider chiropractic care for headache and migraine management. Frequent or long term use of any medication/drug should always be of concern and you should seek advice from your medical doctor.
In the Macquarie University study, specific chiropractic adjustments to the spine, significantly reduce migraines in 71% of the people surveyed. (see ref 2 below)
Reasons why Chiropractic care is effective in headache management?
- Headaches may be due to issues with the muscles and bones of the neck and spine. Your chiropractor is university trained to identify where issues exist in the spine and chiropractic care corrects this naturally without use of drugs.
- Medication may temporarily cover up the headache pain, but may not correct or remove the underlying cause.
- Chiropractors check for the likely cause of the headache and where necessary use gentle, specific adjustments to correct for imbalance in the neck and/or spine. Many headaches are cervicogenic (see ref 3 below), meaning from the neck and respond exceptionally well to chiropractic care.
- Chiropractors can also provide lifestyle advice which can help in preventing the recurrence of headaches.
- At Greensborough Family Chiropractic, Melbourne, we will use all of our knowledge and experience to assess the likely causes of the headaches/migraines/chronic pain.
- Frequent or long term use of over the counter headache medication may itself be the cause of some headaches (see reference 4 below). Frequent use of any medication/drug should always be of concern and you should always seek advice from your qualified health care provider (medical doctor).
At Greensborough Family Chiropractic we also have an interest in natural health & nutrition and where appropriate will mention if your condition may be assisted by natural supplements.
If you have chronic or ongoing issues with pain consider trying chiropractic care.
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When to consult your Health Care Professional?
All headaches can affect your quality of life and it is recommended that you consult your chiropractor or other health care professional. It is especially necessary to consult your medical doctor or health care professional if your headache falls into the minority of serious headaches, such as:
- In addition to the headache you also have other symptoms such as fever, slurred speech, weakness, stiff neck, numbness or tingling, drowsiness, confusion, vomiting.
- The headaches started and persist after an initial head injury.
- It is your first headache or your worst headache.
- Your headache will not go away and/or is getting worse.
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