How To Use Chiropractic To Help Your Headaches
Headaches are one of those common ailments that effect everyone for different reasons. It can be really hard to pinpoint why someone is experiencing a headache, making a treatment plan just as difficult. Usually the most common suggestion is to take a pain reliever. This can work for people who experience headaches every once in a while, but if you are someone with chronic headaches or sever migraines, constantly taking pain medication can not only be ineffective, but it can be damaging to the liver in the long run.
We are finding that taking over 4,000 mg of acetaminophen per day is considered an overdose of medication, resulting in sometimes devastating outcomes. This may seem like a lot of medication, but if you are taking 500 mg pills, two at a time, that 4,000 mg can add up fast. This is why it is so important to find an alternative treatment option.
Chiropractic is a form of natural care that may have the ability to dramatically decrease all types of headache pain. When a patient visits a chiropractor, it is important to first determine the headache history. This will help the chiropractor decide on a treatment plan for the patient’s individual needs. For example, if a patient is experiencing their head pain due to a recent accident or if the pain is from a sport’s injury, the chiropractor will need to determine what the best plan of action will be for that person.
Once the treatment plan is determined, then chiropractic manipulations can be administered on the patient. If the vertebrae is found to have dysfunctions along the neck area then there may be an increase of muscle tension and a disruption of blood flow to the head. Chiropractic treatment may improve the alignment in the vertebrae, decreasing the pressure and creating better blood flow, which may offer headache relief.
These dysfunctions in the neck joints may be caused by all types of activities. Sometimes severe incidents like care accidents or rough falls can have an impact on headache frequency, however smaller traumas like hours spent on the computer, bad posture and even emotional stress can all cause chronic headaches. In rare cases chiropractors can determine that poor nerve function, torn ligaments or the jaw disorder TMJ will be found to be the cause of the pain.
Since headache pain can be derived from so many different reasons, it is important to be treated by a chiropractor who is committed to thorough examination and is experienced in treating headache pain.
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