Chiropractic Migraine Pain Relief
Many people looking for migraine pain relief have found that regular visits to a chiropractor work very well.
In this article I will explain why this works so effectively and why this alternative treatment has many benefits over traditional medication.
Even with the advances in medical science that we know today migraines are still classed as idiopathic.
This simply means that the cause is not fully understood.
There are lots of theories and evidence to back these theories but there is not one cause that is definitive.
For example it is often thought to be a lack of serotonin.
Serotonin is a feel good chemical released from the pituitary gland in the brain, often lack of serotonin can lead to depression also.
One common cause of migraines is a severe tension in the muscles surrounding the top of the spine and neck area.
The bones are in the correct place and so this tension in muscle is often missed on x-rays, but yet commonly picked up by a good chiropractor.
A chiropractor will work to relieve muscular tension in all of the spine and the neck, which can give rapid relief to any pain experienced through headaches and migraines.
A study at Northwestern College of Chiropractic in Minnesota held a study with just over 200 people.
They compared the effectiveness of standard medication to chiropractic pain relief and found that in both cases there was a 40 to 50% reduction rate.
Thus showing that chiropractic therapy is an effective as drug therapy.
Interestingly the patients that received chiropractic treatment continued to see benefit whilst those using standard medication did not.
Migraine pain relief can be found in many different ways and forms but alternative and effective treatments like this very popular and growing in use around the world.
They are proving to be a more effective long-term treatment and are also a great early preventative method of treatment.
In this article I will explain why this works so effectively and why this alternative treatment has many benefits over traditional medication.
Even with the advances in medical science that we know today migraines are still classed as idiopathic.
This simply means that the cause is not fully understood.
There are lots of theories and evidence to back these theories but there is not one cause that is definitive.
For example it is often thought to be a lack of serotonin.
Serotonin is a feel good chemical released from the pituitary gland in the brain, often lack of serotonin can lead to depression also.
One common cause of migraines is a severe tension in the muscles surrounding the top of the spine and neck area.
The bones are in the correct place and so this tension in muscle is often missed on x-rays, but yet commonly picked up by a good chiropractor.
A chiropractor will work to relieve muscular tension in all of the spine and the neck, which can give rapid relief to any pain experienced through headaches and migraines.
A study at Northwestern College of Chiropractic in Minnesota held a study with just over 200 people.
They compared the effectiveness of standard medication to chiropractic pain relief and found that in both cases there was a 40 to 50% reduction rate.
Thus showing that chiropractic therapy is an effective as drug therapy.
Interestingly the patients that received chiropractic treatment continued to see benefit whilst those using standard medication did not.
Migraine pain relief can be found in many different ways and forms but alternative and effective treatments like this very popular and growing in use around the world.
They are proving to be a more effective long-term treatment and are also a great early preventative method of treatment.
