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!
Migraine, cervicogenic headache and chiropractic. Systematic literature searches of controlled clinical trials published through August 2009 relevant to chiropractic practice were conducted using many databases. Twenty-one articles were used to develop recommendations. The evidence suggests that chiropractic care improves migraine and cervicogenic headaches. (3)
References:
3. Bryans R, Descarreaux M, Duranleau M et al. Evidence-based guidelines for the chiropractic treatment of adults with headache. J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2011;34(5):274-289. doi: 10.1016/j.jmpt.2011.04.008.
Showing posts with label migraines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label migraines. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Gentle chiropractic for sciatica, migraines and arthritis!
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 why our patient Barbara says that KST, the Koren Specific Technique, style of adjusting has helped significantly with her sciatic pain and migraines. Her husband Chuck reports that he struggles much less with his arthritis and that the "treatment lasts a lot longer" than traditional, manual adjusting. We are so grateful to have them as patients!
Watch the following video and see why our patient Barbara says that KST, the Koren Specific Technique, style of adjusting has helped significantly with her sciatic pain and migraines. Her husband Chuck reports that he struggles much less with his arthritis and that the "treatment lasts a lot longer" than traditional, manual adjusting. We are so grateful to have them as patients!
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.
Friday, July 22, 2011
We work with migraines and vertigo at Van Every Family Chiropractic!
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!
Many people suffer from migraines combined with vertigo. Here is a case study showing how chiropractic can help these conditions:
Dizziness (vertigo), neck pain and migraines. A twelve-year-old boy with a long history of routine, recurrent dizziness, chronic neck pain and migraines began chiropractic care. His symptoms had caused him to be absent from school more than half of the time the previous seven years.
He received chiropractic adjustments to the cervical (neck), mid-thoracic (mid back) vertebrae and the sacrum. After the first week of chiropractic care he reported a cessation of his headaches and neck ache. His vertigo attacks decreased in frequency and severity, then ceased. His school attendance improved dramatically. (12)
References:
12. Kelly DD & Holt K. Resolution of vertigo, migraines and neck pain in a 12-year-old boy receiving chiropractic care - a case study. Journal of Pediatric, Maternal & Family Health – Chiropractic. 2010;4:150-153.
Many people suffer from migraines combined with vertigo. Here is a case study showing how chiropractic can help these conditions:
Dizziness (vertigo), neck pain and migraines. A twelve-year-old boy with a long history of routine, recurrent dizziness, chronic neck pain and migraines began chiropractic care. His symptoms had caused him to be absent from school more than half of the time the previous seven years.
He received chiropractic adjustments to the cervical (neck), mid-thoracic (mid back) vertebrae and the sacrum. After the first week of chiropractic care he reported a cessation of his headaches and neck ache. His vertigo attacks decreased in frequency and severity, then ceased. His school attendance improved dramatically. (12)
References:
12. Kelly DD & Holt K. Resolution of vertigo, migraines and neck pain in a 12-year-old boy receiving chiropractic care - a case study. Journal of Pediatric, Maternal & Family Health – Chiropractic. 2010;4:150-153.
Saturday, October 2, 2010
A chiropractic case study: scoliosis, migraines and ADD
Scoliosis, attention deficit disorder, migraines.
This is the case of a 7-year-old girl born with right side facial paralysis (from a difficult birth), scoliosis, attention deficit disorder, difficulty concentrating, vomiting and light sensitivity from intense migraine headaches since the age of 2. Her parents brought her in for chiropractic care and subluxation correction was initiated. Along with improvement of her subjective complaints such as migraines, difficulty concentrating and light sensitivity, after just one month of care X-rays revealed a 62% improvement in scoliosis.
References:
Jaszewski E and Sorbara A. Improvement in a child with scoliosis, migraines, attention deficit disorder and vertebral subluxations utilizing the Pierce Chiropractic Technique. Journal of Pediatric, Maternal & Family Health – Chiropractic. 2010;1:30-34.
This is the case of a 7-year-old girl born with right side facial paralysis (from a difficult birth), scoliosis, attention deficit disorder, difficulty concentrating, vomiting and light sensitivity from intense migraine headaches since the age of 2. Her parents brought her in for chiropractic care and subluxation correction was initiated. Along with improvement of her subjective complaints such as migraines, difficulty concentrating and light sensitivity, after just one month of care X-rays revealed a 62% improvement in scoliosis.
References:
Jaszewski E and Sorbara A. Improvement in a child with scoliosis, migraines, attention deficit disorder and vertebral subluxations utilizing the Pierce Chiropractic Technique. Journal of Pediatric, Maternal & Family Health – Chiropractic. 2010;1:30-34.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Scoliosis, ADD, migraines and chiropractic
Scoliosis, attention deficit disorder, migraines.
This is the case of a 7-year-old girl born with right side facial paralysis (from a difficult birth), scoliosis, attention deficit disorder, difficulty concentrating, vomiting and light sensitivity from intense migraine headaches since the age of 2. Her parents brought her in for chiropractic care and subluxation correction was initiated. Along with improvement of her subjective complaints such as migraines, difficulty concentrating and light sensitivity, after just one month of care X-rays revealed a 62% improvement in scoliosis. (3)
This is the case of a 7-year-old girl born with right side facial paralysis (from a difficult birth), scoliosis, attention deficit disorder, difficulty concentrating, vomiting and light sensitivity from intense migraine headaches since the age of 2. Her parents brought her in for chiropractic care and subluxation correction was initiated. Along with improvement of her subjective complaints such as migraines, difficulty concentrating and light sensitivity, after just one month of care X-rays revealed a 62% improvement in scoliosis. (3)
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