Corcoran, MN

Headache Relief Corcoran, MN

Headache Relief in Corcoran, MN. How do you usually manage debilitating headaches and migraines? Immediately reach for the bathroom shelf for Tylenol? Try to take a nap? Try to persevere and go about your day, knowing it's going to be next to impossible to focus or do anything? Increasingly more people in the Corcoran area and throughout the U.S. are finding chiropractic care to be an effective way of achieving meaningful headache relief. If headaches are making it impossible for you to live your best life possible, speak to a professional chiropractor today at (763) 568-7869 or contact us online.

Headaches We Offer Relief For in Corcoran, MN

There are more than 150 classifications of headaches. They're typically broken down into two categories: primary headaches, wherein the headache itself is the pressing health concern, and secondary headaches, which are caused by underlying conditions like a tumor, a concussion, high blood pressure, or an ear infection. Corcoran, MN chiropractors normally focus headache relief for primary headaches. There are four common types of those headaches:

Migraine Headaches

Most people find that migraines cause pain on only part of the head. An estimated 12% of the population suffers from migraines, 25% percent of whom experience a migraine with aura, which are severe headaches accompanied by visual interferences, including:

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

Once a migraine starts, symptoms include vomiting, sensitivity to light/sound, and dull pain. Pain can be mild to severe, and a migraine can last just a few hours to almost three days. Anyone who's suffered from migraines knows how crippling 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 a telltale sign. Also called "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 pressure-like symptom that progresses to a nagging pain, and can last for a half hour, to hours, or even days. Beyond pressure, other symptoms include tenderness of the face, head, neck, and shoulders, pain behind the eyes, and difficulty falling asleep. Tension headaches can be equally debilitating as migraines, and often can originate as or lead to migraines.

Cluster Headaches

Cluster headaches are severe come and go quickly over a period of 24 hours. At their worst they can cause as many as eight episodes per day. Symptoms include:

• Intense piercing pain behind one eye
• Epiphora
• A swollen eyelid
• Nasal discharge
• Sensitivity to light/sound
• Restlessness

Hemicrania Continua

Hemicrania continua is a type of headache disorder that causes continual pain that varies in severity but always occurs on one side of the face. You can experience mild pain with episodes of significant pain. They have symptoms very much like migraines, but also commonly include a blocked nose, a drooping eyelid, red eyes or crying, and eye soreness.

Secondary headaches are due to outside factors, like an exercose headache after physical activity, or a caffeine headache from caffeine withdrawal. Other times headaches manifest themselves as symptoms of sinus or allergy issues. While chiropractic care is usually sought for primary headache relief in Corcoran, MN, spinal adjustments and other chiropractic treatments can be an essential part of overall health that diminishes the likelihood and severity of secondary headaches also.

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

Genetics plays a huge role in migraines and other headaches. Lifestyle factors like intense physical exercise, inadequate sleep, how you sit, stand, and move, and not eating well can cause headaches to happen more frequently and be more severe. External factors like specific lights, noises, odors, stress, a whiplash injury from an auto crash, and even the weather can also be common culprits.

In the modern world, most Corcoran, MN residents are more sedentary than humans used to be. A lot of us have to be seated for long periods at work, looking at a phone, laying down to watch TV, or otherwise fixed in one position. We're always looking at screens and other sensory overloads that can act as stressors that cause headaches.

But what is physically happening to cause headaches? Unhealthy lifestyle habits, and outside stressors cause increased tension in the joints and soft tissue of the neck, shoulders, and upper back, and can result in the bones and joints of our spine being out of place. Bones that can become misaligned are 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, causing pain and leading you to look for headache relief.

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Total Spine MN's Approach to Headache Relief in Corcoran, MN

As headaches are mainly a disorder of the nervous system, chiropractic care provides effective headache relief by restoring normal function of your nervous system. Pills are the first thing many people in Corcoran, MN turn to for headache relief, but in fact overuse of even over-the-counter drugs can lead to medication overuse headaches.

More and more people are instead why chiropractic care is a great option for headache relief. One study reported that 87.2% of chiropractic patients reported headache conditions. Our Corcoran, MN chiropractic clinic can help you find enduring headache relief with the following treatment methods:

• Your first visit— At your first appointment, we'll carefully examine your joints and spinal cord and take an X-ray to eliminate other possible causes of your headaches and make sure chiropractic care is safe for you.
• Chiropractic adjustment — A spinal manipulation is the main practice of any chiropractor in Corcoran, MN. If chiropractic care is safe for you, our professional 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 your posture, and do away with any issues in your nervous system that we can.
• Message Therapy — A message of your neck, upper back, and shoulders will further alleviate the tension at the root of your headaches and break down damaged soft tissue. Massage therapy also helps in headache relief by releasing "feel good" neurotransmitters to reduce stress.
• Patient Education — Chiropractors are able to find the causes of headaches, and not just in your joints. We'll give you lifestyle advice to use when you're not in our clinic, such as proper nutrition, better posture, light exercise you can do to correct imbalances, and teach you healthy ergonomics.

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

Other conditions we treat in Corcoran, MN include:

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

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

Sometimes, we don't have a good grasp on how how debilitating headaches actually are until receiving the benefit of chiropractic treatment in Corcoran, 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 Corcoran, MN, or are interested in any of our other services, give us a call today at (763) 568-7869 or contact us online.