Natural Headache and Migraine Relief
With over 60 different types of headaches and headache treatment centers popping up all over Overland Park and Kansas City, it’s important to try to determine what the cause of your headache actually is before you consider all of your options. Thousands of Kanas City patients are finding natural headache and migraine relief through chiropractic treatment, especially if the cause is due to a mechanical problem in your neck.
Migraines vs. Tension Headaches
The United States Department of Health and Human Services categorizes migraines as more severe than tension headaches, but what are the symptoms of each of them, and how can you tell them apart? Compare your symptoms using the list below:
Tension Headaches
- Pain: Mild to Moderate
- Pain is described as a tightness or steady ache
- Pain on one or both sides of the head
Migraine Headaches
- Pain: Severe
- Pain is described as pounding or throbbing
- Pain on just one side of the head
- Nausea
- Sensitivity to light, sound or motion
Natural Headache Relief Through Chiropractic
It’s been shown through research that natural headache treatment through adjusting a mechanical problem in your neck has been shown to provide patients with both migraine relief and headache and pain relief.
But what’s a Mechanical Problem in the neck?
When a group of bones in your neck (vertebrae) become misaligned they no longer bend and move when you bend and move, they become locked up. This can limit your ability to move your head and neck as freely as you once did before. You may find it difficult to look over your shoulder in the car when you’re backing up, or your only symptom may be a headache. In either case, chiropractic treatment can help to restore the motion you need to bend and move as you once did.
Chiropractic treatment is the practice of using chiropractic adjustments to move joints that are locked up or fixated so that they begin to work properly again. This restores motion, decreases inflammation and irritation and allows the nerves to move freely throughout the body as they were designed. The chiropractic adjustment is not painful. On the contrary, millions find headache and migraine relief through restoring normal motion to the bones in the neck.
Severe headache pain relief is possible, naturally, especially if the cause of the pain stems from a problem in the neck.
Pain Relief for Headaches During Pregnancy
Pregnant women often experience headaches due to their altered body position and the extra weight of the baby on their bones and joints. Every year hundreds of Kansas City women seek out natural pain relief for headaches during pregnancy. Chiropractic treatment is very successful in eliminating pain that results from a change in the mechanical structure of the spine, such as the case with pregnancy.
Even after the baby is born, women seek out chiropractic treatment for pain relief for headaches while they’re breastfeeding. The body position that many mothers assume while breastfeeding often causes stiff joints between the shoulder blades and up into the neck. Holding this body position for a long period of time often results in headaches and neck pain.
Chiropractors use special equipment to provide pregnant mothers with comfortable, effective, and completely natural headache and migraine relief. Many local Kansas City OBGYN’s work closely with chiropractors to provide pregnant women the relief they need, especially during their third trimester.
Learn more about What Triggers Your Headaches or contact our Kansas City chiropractic clinic to speak with a doctor to see if chiropractic treatment can be a benefit to you and help with your specific condition.
Open 7 Days a Week, we offer headache treatment and migraine relief when it’s most convenient for you. Call us today 913-764-6237 or schedule an appointment online.