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Chiropractic Facts
Headaches
What type of headache do I have?
There are specific labels for many types
of headaches, but when your head is
pounding, it's hard to care. By far, tension
headaches are the most common type in the
United States and may affect as much as 95%
of the population at one time or another.
Tension headache sufferers report dull,
steady pain on one or both sides of the head
and often a feeling of vice-like tightness.
Typically, these headaches begin with physical
or mental stress that causes contractions of
muscles in the neck, back, and head. These
prolonged contractions rob the muscles of
oxygen, making them release chemicals that
transmit "referred" pain signals to the brain.
So many seemly innocent things can
trigger a tension headache, it's often hard to
pinpoint a cause. Emotional stress from a job,
home, or relationship can cause muscle
tension. Sitting for long periods hunched over
a desk or computer, gripping a telephone
between the shoulder and ear, driving in
heavy traffic or bad weather, adjusting to new
lenses in glasses - all these things can cause
muscles to tighten in the neck and back.
Physical stress from pain in another part
of the body, often spinal problems, can also
cause chronic muscle contractions leading to
tension headaches.
Treatment
The treatment for a headache depends, of course, on what
has presumably caused it. A headache arising from visual
problems can often be cured by eyeglasses. An infection
headache of the sinuses or ears is relieved when the infection
subsides. But the most common headaches are usually treated
with painkillers. This does not get to the cause of the problem but
addresses only the symptoms. Of course, to someone experiencing
intense pain, symptom relief is no small thing.
However, the hundreds of millions of dollars spent each year on
everything from aspirin and aspirin substitutes to codeine and
prescription drugs may provide relief from headache but don't correct the cause.
Can Chiropractic Help Me?
For over a century chiropractic's natural, drug-free approach to health has been a blessing
to migraine and cluster headache sufferers. Chiropractors are the only healthcare
professionals trained to analyze and correct the vertebral subluxation complex, a
condition that affects your spine, nerves, joints, discs and other structures. This
common, often painless condition can weaken your body, cause fatigue and pain,
lower vitality and set the stage for sickness and diseases.
Please keep in mind that the purpose of chiropractic care is not to cure specific
diseases but to correct the subluxation complex. This allows your body to
restore itself to a greater level of health and wholeness - to better heal itself.
Low Back Pain
When To Seek Help For Low Back Pain
When pain is severe, problems with your
back can't be ignored. "Stop pain" immediately
goes to number one on your list. Falls, car
accidents, sports strains, heavy lifting, or
repetitive work may cause sudden damage, or
damage may occur slowly over time. However,
most problems are more easily treated within
the first month symptoms are noticed.
While some patients seek chiropractic
care only when pain is unbearable, this
"crisis" approach often costs more in the long
run - in time, stress, and dollars. Long-
standing problems that have been neglected
for years can't be cured with a single
adjustment, any more than a single pill in a
prescription can cure an illness.
Chiropractic care for low back pain has
been proven to work. The sooner you seek
professional care, the sooner you'll find relief
from your pain. Don't continue to suffer.
Spine Misalignments
Click here to learn about the effects of spine misalignments
Chiropractic For Infants/Babies
Many authorities suggest that the position of the mother, coupled with the pulling from
the delivering physician, has a lot to do with the creation of subluxation related problems.
When the delivering mother is lying on her back, she is not only working partially against
gravity, but she has reduced the pelvic opening size. These two factors require the
attending physician to pull harder on the head of the child. The increased pulling and
twisting during the birth process, coupled with reduced pelvic opening and working
against gravity, often sets the stage for birth trauma, subluxation and the resulting
problems.
Some of the more commonly mentioned problems that have been linked to traumatic
birth are learning disabilities, (ADD, ADHD and HD) headaches. Visual and hearing
problems and/or frequent earaches, resulting in an unnecessary procedure of putting tubes
in the ears.
Chiropractic can help with some, if not all of these problems. It is important to have
newborns checked for vertebral subluxations. When a child develops free from nerve
interference (subluxations), most health problems may be avoided completely.
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