Can Chiropractic Care Help with Your Headaches?

We’ve all dealt with it before: the throbbing, pounding pain of a headache. Most of us get them every now and then, but some people suffer from chronic headaches which can affect relationships, work, and overall well-being. Fortunately, chiropractic can help. Here’s how chiropractic can treat the cause of your headaches and provide natural headache relief.

Headache Causes

We treat many patients seeking relief from headache pain caused by tension headaches and migraines. But what’s the difference? A tension headache starts in the neck and pain refers to the temples, jaw, and middle of the back of the head. Tension headaches can be pounding and cause severe pain. They also respond well to chiropractic treatment.

Migraines, on the other hand, are a special type of headache with vascular and/or neurological components. Migraine sufferers can often have one without even having headache pain. Some symptoms include seeing weird spots floating in the field of vision, nausea, vomiting, and even speech problems. Depending on the type of migraine, its severity, and its trigger, migraines often respond to chiropractic care.

Natural Headache Relief

By gently and carefully improving the alignment of the spine and natural curve of the neck, chiropractic care can help relieve pain and remove the cause of your headaches. Chiropractic adjustments also encourage the bones of the spine to move better. When these two things happen, the nerves that come out of the spine and control muscles fire more efficiently and effectively. This promotes the return of normal muscle tone, so muscles that may have been spasming before an adjustment will start to relax. Those muscle spasms can contribute to headache pain, so it is just another way that chiropractic can help provide natural headache relief.

Visit Livingston County Chiropractic Center

If you are suffering from headache or migraine pain, you don’t have to just deal with it. To treat the root cause of your headaches without the use and risks of medication, try chiropractic! Getting started is easy — just click here to contact your local Pontiac, IL chiropractor.

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