We at Van Every Family Chiropractic Center of Royal Oak, Michigan, care about your health and well-being and strive to provide you with current information in a variety of health topics!
Chronic headache in an eight-year-old. An 8-year old boy who suffered from chronic headaches for two years was brought in for chiropractic care. The headaches were described as sharp and throbbing, worse with noise, better when lying down, and located in the frontal skull area and occasionally lasted an entire day. He also suffered from sore throat, fatigue, queasiness, aches, pains and dizziness.
His parents brought him to a neurologist, psychologist and nutritionist with limited health improvements.
Initially the child was adjusted three times a week then progressed to a maintenance schedule of two times per month for a total of 86 visits in 20 months of care. Initially his cervical x-ray showed a flat spine – there was no curve. After 6 months of care his cervical lordosis (curve) was near normal for his age. His headaches and other symptoms resolved. (5)
References:
5. Oakley PA, Chaney SJ, Chaney TA, Maddox A. Resolution of chronic headaches following reduction of vertebral subluxation in an 8-year-old utilizing Chiropractic Biophysics Technique. Journal of Pediatric, Maternal & Family Health – Chiropractic. 2011;3:82-86.
Showing posts with label headaches. Show all posts
Showing posts with label headaches. Show all posts
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
"Does my posture matter?" Van Every asks!
We at Van Every Family Chiropractic Center of Royal Oak, Michigan, care about your health and well-being and strive to provide you with current information in a variety of health topics!
According to researchers reporting in the American Journal of Pain Management, "Posture affects and moderates every physiological function from breathing to hormonal production. Spinal pain, headache, mood, blood pressure, pulse, and lung capacity are also among the functions influenced by posture.”
“Posture especially influences respiration, oxygenation and sympathetic function. Ultimately, it appears that homeostasis and autonomic regulation are intimately connected with posture. It has been clinically observed that many symptoms, including pain, may be moderated or eliminated by improved posture." (3)
We’d like to add however that good posture is much more than remembering to “sit up straight”, “don’t hunch”, “hold your head up” and other ways of holding ourselves. Most of our posture is unconscious and is the result of how we deal with our relationship with gravity, stress, our emotions, fatigue and whether we have subluxations or not.
Because of that it is important for children (as well as adults) to have a chiropractic checkup to ensure that they grow up in balance and alignment.
References:
3. Lennon J, Sheeley CN, Cady RK et al. Postural and respiratory modulation of autonomic function, pain, and health. American Journal of Pain Management. 1994;4:36-39.
According to researchers reporting in the American Journal of Pain Management, "Posture affects and moderates every physiological function from breathing to hormonal production. Spinal pain, headache, mood, blood pressure, pulse, and lung capacity are also among the functions influenced by posture.”
“Posture especially influences respiration, oxygenation and sympathetic function. Ultimately, it appears that homeostasis and autonomic regulation are intimately connected with posture. It has been clinically observed that many symptoms, including pain, may be moderated or eliminated by improved posture." (3)
We’d like to add however that good posture is much more than remembering to “sit up straight”, “don’t hunch”, “hold your head up” and other ways of holding ourselves. Most of our posture is unconscious and is the result of how we deal with our relationship with gravity, stress, our emotions, fatigue and whether we have subluxations or not.
Because of that it is important for children (as well as adults) to have a chiropractic checkup to ensure that they grow up in balance and alignment.
References:
3. Lennon J, Sheeley CN, Cady RK et al. Postural and respiratory modulation of autonomic function, pain, and health. American Journal of Pain Management. 1994;4:36-39.
Friday, December 16, 2011
Headache relief for athletes!
We at Van Every Family Chiropractic Center of Royal Oak, Michigan, care about your health and well-being and strive to provide you with current information in a variety of health topics!
Our patient Alex is very active in sports and as a result, he has many headaches. He says that with KST, the Koren Specific Technique, his "headaches improve immediately and then also over a week." Immediate pain relief that lasts is a win-win combination!
Our patient Alex is very active in sports and as a result, he has many headaches. He says that with KST, the Koren Specific Technique, his "headaches improve immediately and then also over a week." Immediate pain relief that lasts is a win-win combination!
Monday, November 28, 2011
Feels great after Koren Specific Technique adjustment!
We at Van Every Family Chiropractic Center of Royal Oak, Michigan, care about your health and well-being and strive to provide you with current information in a variety of health topics!
Watch the following video and see our patient Lou Ann describe how she came in today to give her testimonial and had neck pain with a headache and "feels great right now" after her KST, Koren Specific Technique adjustment!
Watch the following video and see our patient Lou Ann describe how she came in today to give her testimonial and had neck pain with a headache and "feels great right now" after her KST, Koren Specific Technique adjustment!
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
KST helped Kariann with infertility!
We at Van Every Family Chiropractic Center of Royal Oak, Michigan, care about your health and well-being and strive to provide you with current information in a variety of health topics!
Watch the following video and hear how about our patient Kariann's experience with KST, the Koren Specific Technique, style of adjusting. She originally came in because she had headaches, but was also struggling with infertility. Kariann counts the care she received as part of what "made it possible to have our son, Josh." We're grateful to help!
Watch the following video and hear how about our patient Kariann's experience with KST, the Koren Specific Technique, style of adjusting. She originally came in because she had headaches, but was also struggling with infertility. Kariann counts the care she received as part of what "made it possible to have our son, Josh." We're grateful to help!
Friday, October 7, 2011
We at Van Every Family Chiropractic Center can help you!
We at Van Every Family Chiropractic Center of Royal Oak, Michigan, care about your health and well-being and strive to provide you with current information in a variety of health topics!
Chiropractors release a serious stress (subluxations) from your body. This releases energy for healing, regeneration and growth.
All people (especially children) need a body free of blockages and stress so they’ll have strong, happy and healthy lives. Below are some clinical cases illustrating the potential of the chiropractic adjustment to correct subluxations.
Night terrors and headaches. A female adolescent with recurring headaches and night terrors (parasomnia) began chiropractic care. The headaches and sleep disturbances were interfering with her school performance and academics, sports and her social life.
Upon examination the chiropractor discovered that she had cervical (neck), thoracic (mid back) and lumbar (lower back) subluxations.
With one month of care her postural abnormalities and associated vertebral (spinal) subluxations were corrected during which time there was a reduction in headaches and complete resolution of night terrors.
Sleep disturbances in children are common and often develop without explanation. To date there are few interventions that can help alleviate these problems. Vertebral subluxation should always be considered when a child is suffering from health issues. (3)
Chiropractors release a serious stress (subluxations) from your body. This releases energy for healing, regeneration and growth.
All people (especially children) need a body free of blockages and stress so they’ll have strong, happy and healthy lives. Below are some clinical cases illustrating the potential of the chiropractic adjustment to correct subluxations.
Night terrors and headaches. A female adolescent with recurring headaches and night terrors (parasomnia) began chiropractic care. The headaches and sleep disturbances were interfering with her school performance and academics, sports and her social life.
Upon examination the chiropractor discovered that she had cervical (neck), thoracic (mid back) and lumbar (lower back) subluxations.
With one month of care her postural abnormalities and associated vertebral (spinal) subluxations were corrected during which time there was a reduction in headaches and complete resolution of night terrors.
Sleep disturbances in children are common and often develop without explanation. To date there are few interventions that can help alleviate these problems. Vertebral subluxation should always be considered when a child is suffering from health issues. (3)
Friday, August 19, 2011
We can help your headaches at Van Every Family Chiropractic Center!
We at Van Every Family Chiropractic Center of Royal Oak, Michigan, care about your health and well-being and strive to provide you with current information in a variety of health topics!
What Puts the 'Ache' in Headache?
The ache in headache does not come from your brain—your brain cannot feel pain. During brain surgery a patient is often wide awake feeling nothing, even talking to the surgeons and nurses while his/her brain is being operated on (a local anesthetic numbs the scalp). So what puts the "ache" in headache? It's the non-brain structures: blood vessels, membranes and cranial nerves in the brain and skull. When these structures are stretched, compressed, irritated, inflamed or infected headaches often result.
The Chiropractic Approach
Why have millions of headache sufferers turned to the natural, drug-free chiropractic approach to health? (1)
That's because chiropractic has a unique healing approach—chiropractors are the only health professionals trained to analyze your body for a serious and often ignored condition that can damage your nerves, inflame your tissues, cause muscles to tighten and knot, weaken your body, cause fatigue and set the stage for sickness and disease. This condition is called the subluxation.
Just as you may have a cavity in your tooth and be unaware of the damage it's causing, so a subluxation may be causing serious harm to your body—sometimes for years—without your knowledge.
The Chiropractic Checkup
If you have a subluxation we will give you a safe, gentle adjustment to correct the subluxation, thus removing nerve pressure and structural distortions.
Why Does Chiropractic Work So Well?
One study of 6,000 long-term headache sufferers (two to 25 years) revealed that neck injury (whiplash, falls) was the most important factor in the cause of the headache and should be suspected in every nonspecific case of headache. (2)
Subluxation correction has powerful effects. In a randomized controlled trial performed at the University of Odense, Denmark, those under chiropractic care decreased their use of painkillers by 36% and the number of headache hours per day decreased by 69%. (3)
Headaches affect children too. For example, a 10-year-old girl with chronic, severe migraine (6 times a week for the past 3 years) was unable to go to school due to the severity of her condition. Neurologists could not help her. A chiropractic examination revealed a subluxation in her upper neck. After her third adjustment she was off her pain medications and by the third week she was back in school, had started dance classes for the first time in 2 years, "and actually began to smile again. She was leading a normal and healthy life for a child her age by the end of the 5th visit." (4)
Not A Headache Therapy
For over a hundred years headache and migraine sufferers have turned to chiropractic for help, and yet chiropractic is not a headache therapy or treatment. Chiropractic's role is not to treat any specific disease, but to care for the person who has the condition by ensuring that their entire body functions better by correcting their subluxations.
Anyone suffering from headaches (and any other condition) should make sure the nervous system and structural system is free from subluxations—for the health of their whole body, not just certain parts.
References:
1. Eisenberg DM. Unconventional medicine in the United States. NEJM. 1993;328:246-252.
2. Braaf MM, Rosner SJ. Trauma of the cervical spine as cause of chronic headache. Trauma. 1975;15:441-446.
3. Nilsson N, Christensen HW, Hartvigsen J. The effect of spinal manipulation in the treatment of cervicogenic headache. JMPT. 1997;20:326-330.
4. Bofshever H. Encephalgia/migraine. ICPA Newsletter. Jan/Feb 2000.
What Puts the 'Ache' in Headache?
The ache in headache does not come from your brain—your brain cannot feel pain. During brain surgery a patient is often wide awake feeling nothing, even talking to the surgeons and nurses while his/her brain is being operated on (a local anesthetic numbs the scalp). So what puts the "ache" in headache? It's the non-brain structures: blood vessels, membranes and cranial nerves in the brain and skull. When these structures are stretched, compressed, irritated, inflamed or infected headaches often result.
The Chiropractic Approach
Why have millions of headache sufferers turned to the natural, drug-free chiropractic approach to health? (1)
That's because chiropractic has a unique healing approach—chiropractors are the only health professionals trained to analyze your body for a serious and often ignored condition that can damage your nerves, inflame your tissues, cause muscles to tighten and knot, weaken your body, cause fatigue and set the stage for sickness and disease. This condition is called the subluxation.
Just as you may have a cavity in your tooth and be unaware of the damage it's causing, so a subluxation may be causing serious harm to your body—sometimes for years—without your knowledge.
The Chiropractic Checkup
If you have a subluxation we will give you a safe, gentle adjustment to correct the subluxation, thus removing nerve pressure and structural distortions.
Why Does Chiropractic Work So Well?
One study of 6,000 long-term headache sufferers (two to 25 years) revealed that neck injury (whiplash, falls) was the most important factor in the cause of the headache and should be suspected in every nonspecific case of headache. (2)
Subluxation correction has powerful effects. In a randomized controlled trial performed at the University of Odense, Denmark, those under chiropractic care decreased their use of painkillers by 36% and the number of headache hours per day decreased by 69%. (3)
Headaches affect children too. For example, a 10-year-old girl with chronic, severe migraine (6 times a week for the past 3 years) was unable to go to school due to the severity of her condition. Neurologists could not help her. A chiropractic examination revealed a subluxation in her upper neck. After her third adjustment she was off her pain medications and by the third week she was back in school, had started dance classes for the first time in 2 years, "and actually began to smile again. She was leading a normal and healthy life for a child her age by the end of the 5th visit." (4)
Not A Headache Therapy
For over a hundred years headache and migraine sufferers have turned to chiropractic for help, and yet chiropractic is not a headache therapy or treatment. Chiropractic's role is not to treat any specific disease, but to care for the person who has the condition by ensuring that their entire body functions better by correcting their subluxations.
Anyone suffering from headaches (and any other condition) should make sure the nervous system and structural system is free from subluxations—for the health of their whole body, not just certain parts.
References:
1. Eisenberg DM. Unconventional medicine in the United States. NEJM. 1993;328:246-252.
2. Braaf MM, Rosner SJ. Trauma of the cervical spine as cause of chronic headache. Trauma. 1975;15:441-446.
3. Nilsson N, Christensen HW, Hartvigsen J. The effect of spinal manipulation in the treatment of cervicogenic headache. JMPT. 1997;20:326-330.
4. Bofshever H. Encephalgia/migraine. ICPA Newsletter. Jan/Feb 2000.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Do YOU know all the conditions that chiropractic can help?
Chiropractic and headaches. Patients received adjustments once or twice per week for 8 weeks. While everyone who received care benefited, those who received more adjustments had the best outcomes with as much as a 50% improvement in pain. (4)
Chiropractic and dizziness. This study was designed to see if chiropractic care can affect balance, chronic pain and associated dizziness in older adults. Thirty-four (34) patients were enrolled in either a non-chiropractic care group or a chiropractic care group. Assessments were made at baseline and 1, 2, 6 and 12 months later.
For the 9 patients with dizziness, a clinically significant improvement in Dizziness Handicap Index scores was observed at 1 month and remained lower than baseline thereafter; this was not true of the group who did not receive chiropractic care. (5)
Chiropractic and motor and vocal tics. A 20-year-old woman began experiencing motor and vocal tics at the age of three. She had never taken medication for Tourette’s Sydrome, but had tried to control it by taking magnesium and calcium supplements. Chiropractic care was administered after initial exam revealed disturbances to the nervous system resulting from vertebral subluxations that were found using chiropractic analysis. The patient was seen 32 times over the course of one year and experienced significant decreases in the occurrence and severity of her motor and vocal tic episodes as well as an improvement in headaches. (6)
References:
4. Haas M, Spegman A, Peterson D et al. Dose response and efficacy of spinal manipulation for chronic cervicogenic headache: a pilot randomized controlled trial. Spine J. 2010;10(2):117-128.
5. Hawk C, Cambron JA, Pfefer TE. A pilot study of the effect of a limited and extended course of chiropractic care on balance, chronic pain and dizziness in older adults. J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2009;32:438-447.
6. Stone-McCoy P, Muhlenkamp K. Reduction of motor and vocal tics in a female undergoing chiropractic care to reduce vertebral subluxation. Journal of Pediatric, Maternal and Family Health – Chiropractic. 2009;3:1-6.
Chiropractic and dizziness. This study was designed to see if chiropractic care can affect balance, chronic pain and associated dizziness in older adults. Thirty-four (34) patients were enrolled in either a non-chiropractic care group or a chiropractic care group. Assessments were made at baseline and 1, 2, 6 and 12 months later.
For the 9 patients with dizziness, a clinically significant improvement in Dizziness Handicap Index scores was observed at 1 month and remained lower than baseline thereafter; this was not true of the group who did not receive chiropractic care. (5)
Chiropractic and motor and vocal tics. A 20-year-old woman began experiencing motor and vocal tics at the age of three. She had never taken medication for Tourette’s Sydrome, but had tried to control it by taking magnesium and calcium supplements. Chiropractic care was administered after initial exam revealed disturbances to the nervous system resulting from vertebral subluxations that were found using chiropractic analysis. The patient was seen 32 times over the course of one year and experienced significant decreases in the occurrence and severity of her motor and vocal tic episodes as well as an improvement in headaches. (6)
References:
4. Haas M, Spegman A, Peterson D et al. Dose response and efficacy of spinal manipulation for chronic cervicogenic headache: a pilot randomized controlled trial. Spine J. 2010;10(2):117-128.
5. Hawk C, Cambron JA, Pfefer TE. A pilot study of the effect of a limited and extended course of chiropractic care on balance, chronic pain and dizziness in older adults. J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2009;32:438-447.
6. Stone-McCoy P, Muhlenkamp K. Reduction of motor and vocal tics in a female undergoing chiropractic care to reduce vertebral subluxation. Journal of Pediatric, Maternal and Family Health – Chiropractic. 2009;3:1-6.
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