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Headache Relief Burnsville, MN

Headache Relief in Burnsville, MN. How do you usually deal with crushing headaches and migraines? Immediately go to the kitchen shelf for a fever reducer? Try to take a nap? Try to power through and go about your day, knowing it's going to be hard for you to get your chores or work done? Increasingly more people in the Burnsville area and throughout the U.S. are finding chiropractic care to be their go-to option for headache relief. If headaches are not allowing you to live the life you want to, call us today at (763) 568-7869 or contact us online.

Headaches We Offer Relief For in Burnsville, MN

There are more than 150 different types of headaches. They're generally broken down into two categories: primary headaches, which are not the cause of an underlying health problem but are the focus of treatment, and secondary headaches, which are caused by underlying conditions like a tumor, trauma to the head, hypertension, or an infection. Burnsville, MN chiropractors normally focus headache relief for the first category. There are four common types of primary headaches:

Migraine Headaches

Most people find that migraines occur on only part of the head. Migraines affect approximately just over one-tenth of the population, and 25% percent of those cases are migraines with aura, which are severe headaches accompanied by sensory disturbances, including:

• Blind spots
• Seeing flickering lights
• Partial loss of vision
• Tingling
• Muscle fatigue
• Language difficulty

Migraine symptoms include nausea, sensitivity to light/sound, and dull pain. The level of pain can vary in severity, and a migraine can last just a few hours to 72 hours. People with frequent migraines know how difficult they are to manage.

Migraine headaches are a frequent cause of vertigo, which makes migraines dangerous because it increases risk of injury because of falling.

Tension Headaches

Most headaches that most people have are tension headaches, which muscle tension in the neck is a key warning sign. Also referred to as "hatband" headaches because the pain occurs around the back of the head, forehead, and around the temples, they will affect up to 65% of men and 86% of women at least once in their life. They generally onset with a high-pressure on both sides of the head that develops into a dull pain, and can last from 30 minutes, to hours, or even days. Beyond pain, other symptoms can be tenderness of the face, head, neck, and shoulders, pain behind the eyes, and sensitivity to light and sound. Tension headaches are just as difficult to deal with as migraines, and often can come from or lead to migraines.

Cluster Headaches

Cluster headaches are acute headaches come and go quickly over a period of 24 hours. Some people experience up to eight attacks per day. Common symptoms are:

• Intense piercing pain behind one eye
• Tearing eyes
• A swollen eyelid
• A blocked nose
• Sensitivity to light/sound
• Restlessness

Hemicrania Continua

Hemicrania continua is a category of primary headache condition that causes continual pain that varies in severity but always occurs on one half of the face. It is often felt as mild pain that is interrupted by periods of severe pain. They have symptoms very much like migraines, but can also cause a blocked nose, a drooping eyelid, red eyes or watering eyes, and eye pain.

Secondary headaches are caused by outside factors, like an exercose headache after intense physical activity or training, or a caffeine headache from suddenly stopping coffee intake. Allergies or sinus infections also cause headaches. While chiropractic care is usually sought for primary headache relief in Burnsville, MN, spinal adjustments and other chiropractic practices can contribute to your complete health that can help dissuade secondary headaches as well.

Why Do I Keep Getting Headaches? | Burnsville, MN Headache Relief

Genetics plays a huge role in migraines and other headaches. Lifestyle choices like intense exercise, no getting enough sleep either one night or consistently, posture, and a poor diet can cause headaches to happen more often and be more severe. Outside factors like certain lights, noises, odors, emotional or mental tension, a whiplash injury from an auto crash, and even sudden changes in air pressure also frequently cause headaches.

In today's world, most people in Burnsville, MN are more sedentary than previous generations. A lot of us have to be seated for long periods for our job, looking at a phone, sitting up in bed to watch TV, or otherwise fixed in one position. We're always looking at screens and other electronic instruments that can cause our eyes and heads to hurt.

But what is happening in the body to that makes these factors cause headaches? Poor posture, and outside stressors negatively affect the joints and muscles from your upper back, to your neck, and through your face, and can cause our spine to be misaligned. Bones that can become misaligned are the C1 and C2 vertebrae, the the two vertebrae connecting the neck to the skull. That irritation leads to cervicogenic headaches that affect the nerves that run through your upper body, making headache relief necessary.

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How a Burnsville, 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. Medications are the first thing many people in Burnsville, MN go to for headache relief, but in actuality using too much medication to treat headaches can lead to 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 Burnsville, MN chiropractic clinic can help you find lasting headache relief with the following treatment methods:

• 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 possible sources of your headaches and check for potential complications.
• Chiropractic adjustment — A spinal manipulation is the chief practice of any chiropractor in Burnsville, MN. If chiropractic care is safe for you, our experienced chiropractor will use their hands and small instruments to apply a small, controlled, sudden force to joints in your back or spine to improve your spine's alignment, your body's physical function, and allay any issues in your nervous system that we can.
• Message Therapy — A message of the upper portion of your body will further help provide headache relief and smooth out any scar tissue. Massage therapy also helps in headache relief by releasing "feel good" chemical messengers to reduce tension.
• Further Education — Chiropractors are able to find the causes of headaches, in both your spinal cord and in your daily life. We'll offer you lifestyle advice to use in between your chiropractic adjustments, such as a nutritious diet, improved posture, safe exercise you can do to correct imbalances, and educate you on ergonomics.

There's a reason we call ourselves Total Spine Health & Injury Center. We have a variety of abilities to get you feeling back to how you should and improve your overall health.

Other conditions we treat in Burnsville, MN include:

• Herniated Disc Treatment
• Work Injury Treatment
• Family Chiropractic
• Massage Therapy
• Auto Accident Chiropractors Near Me
• Chiropractor
• Chiropractic Adjustment
• Whiplash Treatment
• Migraine Treatment

Burnsville, MN Headache Relief | Total Spine Health & Injury Center

Often, it's hard to know how good you are really capable of feeling until you receive professional chiropractic treatment in Burnsville, MN. We take a holistic view of headache relief so that headaches do not have to be a part of your daily or weekly life. If you're seeking meaningful headache relief in Burnsville, MN, or believe a chiropractor may be able to help you in other ways, reach out to us today at (763) 568-7869 or contact us online.