Migraine is a draining
condition for its sufferers. It is expensive in terms of
pain, money, and pharmacological use need. Drugs are still
the “gold standard” of care. Patients often request choices from their
migraine healthcare providers for non-drug options.
Vancouver migraine sufferers want alternative ideas!
Vancouver Disc Centers suggests that exercise may be one
such useful choice.
EXERCISE FOR CHRONIC PAIN
Migraine is, for most Vancouver migraine sufferers,
a chronic pain condition. It is not usually a one
time situation. Chronic pain disturbs
the nervous system as well as the specific pain-generating
issue. Researchers explained evidence that exercise helps a
variety of chronic pain conditions including migraine directly and indirectly
with an aim to change the cycle of pain,
sedentariness, and worsening disability. These
changes do not come overnight. They come with
long-term, consistent, individualized exercise resulting
in improvement in pain and function. (1) Vancouver Disc Centers tells
our Vancouver chiropractic patients with all types of
conditions that it is slow and steady commitment that results in desired
outcomes.
EXERCISE FOR MIGRAINE BEING STUDIED
Researchers and migraine sufferers alike hold out hope for an easy, low-cost approach to migraine care. For
example, a recent comparison study of
neck-specific exercise versus sham ultrasound to decrease
the frequency and intensity of migraine attacks. (2) A new meta-analysis
in Headache explained that aerobic exercise for migraine patients
decreased the number of migraine days. (3) These are valuable
outcomes for Vancouver migraine treatment.
EXERCISE BENEFITS: Overall and Migraine Specific
Vancouver chiropractic patients are manytimes
encouraged to exercise. Exercise seems like a endorsed
panacea for everything from back pain to migraine to depression to neck pain
and so much more. Why? It works. Exercise stifles inflammation
via reduction of inflammatory modulators (many cytokines) and stress hormones
(growth hormone and cortisol). Exercise constructively impacts
the microvascular system that possibly influences
a certain type of cortical spreading depression. Specific
to migraine, exercise helped migraine self-efficacy by allowing
the migraine sufferer to have a sense of control which lessened
migraine burden. How much exercise does this?
“Sufficiently rigorous aerobic exercise” brought about statistically
significant drop in migraine frequency, intensity and
duration. That is appreciated by Vancouver
migraine sufferers! Naturally, higher intensity exercise appears
to allow more benefit. Pharmacological drugs like topiramate were
reported to be better than exercise, but including
exercise into its use was suggested to provide
benefit. Migraine sufferers
who also experience neck pain or tension headache are reported to benefit from exercise. Low impact is valuable
if high impact exercise is not possible. (4) Vancouver Disc Centers agrees
with the researchers’ outcome: exercise is a practical
evidence-based recommendation for migraine prevention.
CONTACT Vancouver Disc Centers
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. David Kulla on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he presents
how he followed The
Cox®
Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his patient with
migraine which included Cox® Technic spinal manipulation
as well as exercise for welcomed relief by his patient.