Vancouver Headache Relief with Exercise and Chiropractic

April 18, 2017

Headache. Doesn’t the word cause your head to ache?!

Today’s busy world, its stress and fast pace, finds many Vancouver folks complaining of headache. Vancouver Disc Centers sees it every day. Many of our Vancouver chiropractic patients hunt for relief of their headache pain with Vancouver chiropractic care. Vancouver Disc Centers blends chiropractic treatment with suggested exercise to many headache sufferers to cope with and find a break from headache pain.

Causes

First, what brings on a chronic tension-type headache? Emotional and physical issues but not necessarily depression or anxiety proposes one article. (1) Vancouver friends and family can see how physical and emotional issues affect headaches. Vancouver Disc Centers will certainly make time to listen when a Vancouver chiropractic patient needs to talk about life and its many joys and challenges. Life has a huge effect on how we all navigate in our Vancouver intertwined lives. Even Vancouver young people have tension headaches. Families and healthcare providers working with girls between the ages of 9 and 18 years who have tension headaches are concerned. (2) All Vancouver headache sufferers want one thing: relief of headache pain.

Approaches to Relief

Sadly, chronic daily headache sufferers – including many Vancouver headache sufferers – go after help that ends up not helping them. One study revealed that many headache sufferers endure unnecessary additional diagnostic exams and ineffective treatment that contribute to their not understanding their condition. (3) And, oddly, researchers find more fatty infiltration in older ladies’ upper cervical spine muscles who report cervicogenic headache. (4) So might exercise help in reducing these types of Vancouver headaches? Great question!

Vancouver Disc Centers knows Vancouver headache sufferers evaluate a variety of methods to alleviate their headache pain. Research shows that cognitive behavioral therapy helps some with chronic daily headache. (3) Mindfulness meditation is another approach. Those who use this also use moderate exercise, have low back pain, neck pain and headache, and report being sad, nervous and/or frequently stressed. (5) Exercise offers more benefits. Combining gentle Vancouver chiropractic Cox Technic treatment to the cervical spine with neck exercises is often relieving.

Simple Exercise

Vancouver Disc Centers reassures our Vancouver headache patients that the exercises may be simple yet effective. Cervico-scapulothoracic strengthening and endurance exercises including pressure biofeedback for chronic headache permitted small to moderate improvement of pain, function and overall help. (6) Strength training and counseling for these headaches assisted in reducting the headaches’ frequency and enhanced other factors like muscle balance and shoulder strength. (2) Strengthening exercises are beneficial! Vancouver Disc Centers will demonstrate to you some simple strengthening exercises to relieve headache pain.

Schedule an Appointment

Schedule a Vancouver chiropractic headache relieving visit today, so that the word headache does not cause your head ache any more!