Headache Relief

Brooklyn Center, MN

Headache Relief Brooklyn Center, MN

Headache Relief in Brooklyn Center, MN. What do you do when you get debilitating headaches and migraines? Immediately go to the bathroom shelf for a fever reducer? Lie down? Try to power through and proceed as normal, knowing it's going to be hard for you to do what you need to do? Increasingly more people in the Brooklyn Center area and throughout the United States are finding chiropractic care to be a great way of achieving meaningful headache relief. If headaches are making it difficult for you to live the life you want to, feel free to give us a call today at (763) 568-7869 or schedule an appointment online.

Headaches We Offer Relief For in Brooklyn Center, MN

There are more than 150 categories of headaches. They're typically broken down into two larger categories: primary headaches, wherein the headache itself is the relevant health issue, and secondary headaches, which are caused by health issues like a tumor, a brain injury, hypertension, or an ear infection. Brooklyn Center, MN chiropractors generally provide headache relief for headaches that are not caused by an underlying condition. There are four ordinary types of primary headaches:

Migraine Headaches

Typically, but not always, migraines affect one side of the head. Migraines affect approximately just over one-tenth of the population, and a quarter of those cases are migraines with aura, which are visual interferences that are indicators that a migraine is close. Aura's usually last between 5 and an hour and can include:

Blind spots
Seeing Shimmering spots or stars
Partial loss of vision
Numbness
Muscle fatigue
Difficulty speaking

Migraine symptoms include nausea, sensitivity to light/sound, and pain in the face or neck. Pain can be mild to severe, and a migraine can last just a few hours to 72 hours. People with frequent migraines know how debilitating they can be.

Migraines are a frequent cause of vertigo, which is not only debilitating but increases chance of injury because it leads to imbalance.

Tension Headaches

These are the most common type of headaches and muscle tension in the neck is a key warning sign. Also known as "hatband" headaches because the pain occurs in a ring around your head where a hat would be, and they affect up to 70% of the global population at least once. They generally start with a high-pressure on both sides of the head that progresses to a nagging pain, and can last for a half hour, several hours, or even two or three days. In addition to pressure, other symptoms can be tenderness around your upper body from the shoulders up, pressure behind the eyes, and sensitivity to light and sound. Tension headaches are just as difficult to deal with as migraines, and a migraine will often become a tension headache, and vice versa.

Cluster Headaches

Cluster headaches are acute headaches and often come in half-hour to two-hour episodes over a period of 24 hours. At their worst they can cause up to eight attacks within 24 hours. Symptoms include:

Intense burning sensation behind one eye
Watering eyes
A droopy eyelid
A congested nose
Sensitivity to light/sound
Agitation

Hemicrania Continua

Hemicrania continua is a type of headache disorder that causes continual pain that varies in severity but is only felt on one half of the face. It is often felt as mild pain that is interrupted by periods of significant pain. Symptoms are similar to those of migraines, but can also cause a blocked nose, a drooping eyelid, red eyes or watering eyes, and eye soreness.

Secondary headaches are the result of outside factors, such as an exertion headache after physical activity, or a caffeine headache from caffeine withdrawal. Other times headaches manifest themselves as symptoms of sinus or allergy issues. While people in Brooklyn Center, MN most often seek chiropractic care for primary headache relief, seeing a chiropractor can be an essential part of overall health that diminishes the likelihood and severity of secondary headaches as well.

What Causes Headaches? | Brooklyn Center, MN Headache Relief

Genetics plays a huge role in migraines and other headaches. Lifestyle factors like intense exercise, no getting enough sleep either one night or consistently, posture, and a poor diet can contribute to the frequency and severity of headaches. External elements like certain lights, commotion, odors, stress, a whiplash injury from an auto accident, and even the weather can also be common culprits.

In contemporary society, most Brooklyn Center, MN residents live a more sedentary lifestyle than previous generations. A lot of us have to be seated for long periods at work, pointing our necks down to look at a phone, sitting up in bed to watch TV, or otherwise keeping our bodies in unhealthy positions. We're always looking at screens and other electronic instruments that can cause our eyes and heads to hurt.

But what does that do to our bodies internally to cause a headache? A sedentary lifestyle, and outside elements negatively affect the joints and soft tissue of the neck, shoulders, and upper back, and can cause our spine to be misaligned. This can cause tension in the C1 and C2 vertebrae, the top two joints of our spines. This can cause cervicogenic headaches that affect the nerves that help your back, shoulders, neck, and face tissue communicate with each other, making headache relief necessary.

How a Brooklyn Center, MN Attorney Can Help With Headache Relief

As headaches are chiefly a condition of the nervous system, chiropractic care provides effective headache relief by restoring normal function of your nervous system. Over-the-counter medications are what a lot of us Brooklyn Center, MN try for headache relief, but in reality overuse of even over-the-counter drugs can cause medication overuse headaches.

More and more people are instead why chiropractic care is a great option for headache relief. One survey reported that headache disorders are the third most common reason people seekout a chiropractor. Our Brooklyn Center, MN chiropractic clinic can help you find significant headache relief through the following steps:

Your first visit— At your first appointment, we'll carefully examine the very top of your neck and take an X-ray to eliminate other potential sources of your headaches and make sure chiropractic care is safe for you.
Chiropractic adjustment — A spinal manipulation is the primary practice of any chiropractor in Brooklyn Center, MN. If chiropractic care is safe for you, our professional chiropractor will manipulate your spine's alignment with their hands and small instruments in order to correct your alignment, improve your your posture, and do away with disruption in your nervous system caused by spinal misalignment.
Message Therapy — A message of your neck, upper back, and shoulders will further help provide headache relief and break down scar tissue. Massage therapy also alleviates headaches through releasing dopamine, serotonin, endorphins, and oxytocin to reduce stress.
Further Education — Chiropractors are trained to find the causes of headaches in the spine and elsewhere. We'll give you lifestyle advice to use when you're not in our clinic, such as eating healthier, proper posture, light exercise you can do to increase mobility and strengthen certain muscles, and educate you on ergonomics.

There's a reason we call ourselves Total Spine Health & Injury Center. There are many things we can do to get you living your best life.

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