Fridley, MN

Headache Relief Fridley, MN

Headache Relief in Fridley, MN. What do you do when you get crippling headaches and migraines? Immediately go to the bathroom shelf for ibuprofen? Lie down? Try to power through and proceed as normal, knowing it's going to be next to impossible to be productive? Increasingly more people in the Fridley area and throughout the Country are finding chiropractic care to be an effective way of achieving lasting headache relief. If headaches are not allowing you to live your best life possible, feel free to give us a call today at (763) 568-7869 or schedule an appointment online.

Types of Headache Relief in Fridley, MN

There are more than 150 categories of headaches. They're generally broken down into two categories: primary headaches, which are not related to an underlying health condition but are the focus of treatment, and secondary headaches, which are caused by underlying conditions like cancer, blunt force to the head, hypertension, or an infection. Fridley, MN chiropractors normally focus headache relief for primary headaches. There are four common types of those headaches:

Migraine Headaches

Typically, but not always, migraines affect only part of the head. An estimated one-eighth of the population suffers from migraines, a quarter of whom experience a migraine with aura, which are sensory disturbances that are warning signs that a migraine is about to take place. Aura's usually last between a few minutes and 60 minutes and can include:

• Blind spots
• Seeing flickering lights
• Partial loss of vision
• Tingling
• Muscle weakness
• Difficulty finding words

Once a migraine starts, symptoms include vomiting, extreme sensitivity to light/sound, and throbbing pain. Pain can be mild to unbearable, and a migraine can last between 2 and almost three days. People with frequent migraines know how debilitating they can be.

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

Tension Headaches

These are highly prevalent and are often associated with muscle tension in the neck. Also called "hatband" headaches because the pain resides where the band of a tight had would be, and they affect up to 70% of the global population at least once. They usually start with a high-pressure in the neck, face, and muscles that devolves into a dull pain, and can last for a half hour, several hours, or even two or three days. Beyond pressure, other symptoms can be tenderness of the face, head, neck, and shoulders, pressure behind the eyes, and fear of loud sounds. Tension headaches are just as difficult to deal with as migraines, and a migraine will often become a tension headache, as well as the other way around.

Cluster Headaches

Cluster headaches are acute headaches come and go quickly for around one full day. Some people experience as many as eight clusters per day. Symptoms include:

• Intense piercing sensation behind one eye
• Epiphora
• A fallen eyelid
• A congested nose
• Sensitivity to light/sound
• Restlessness

Hemicrania Continua

Hemicrania continua is a type of headache condition that causes persistent pain that varies in severity but is only felt on one side of the face. You can experience mild pain that is interrupted by periods of significant pain. They have symptoms very much like migraines, but also commonly include nasal congestion, ptosis, red eyes or crying, and eye pain.

Other types of headaches are caused by specific events, like an exercose headache after intense physical activity or training, or a caffeine headache from caffeine withdrawal. Other times headaches manifest themselves as symptoms of sinus or allergy issues. While people in Fridley, MN most often seek chiropractic care for primary headache relief, seeing a chiropractor can be an essential part of complete health that can help dissuade secondary headaches also.

Why Do Headaches Happen? | Fridley, MN Headache Relief

Genetics plays a huge role in migraines and other headaches. Lifestyle choices like intense exercise, inadequate sleep, how you sit, stand, and move, and not eating well can cause headaches to occur more frequently and be more severe. External factors like certain lights, sounds, certain aromas, emotional or mental tension, a whiplash injury from an auto crash, and even sudden changes in air pressure also frequently cause headaches.

In the modern world, most people in Fridley, MN are more sedentary than their predecessors. A lot of us have to be seated for long periods at work, pointing our necks down to look at a phone, laying down to watch TV, or otherwise not moving around to much. We're always looking at screens and other electronic instruments that can act as stressors that cause headaches.

But what is physically happening to cause headaches? A sedentary lifestyle, and outside elements negatively affect the joints and soft tissue from your upper back, to your neck, and through your face, and can cause our spine to go out of alignment. This can cause tension in the C1 and C2 vertebrae, the highest two vertebrae 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 seek out headache relief.

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

As headaches are a dysfunction 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 Fridley, MN turn to for headache relief, but in actuality overuse of even over-the-counter drugs can lead to medication overuse headaches.

Increasingly more people are instead turning to chiropractic care for their headache relief. One study found that headache disorders are the third most common reason people seekout a chiropractor. Our Fridley, MN chiropractic clinic can offer meaningful headache relief with the following treatment methods:

• Your first visit— When we first see you, we'll carefully examine your joints and spinal cord and perform an X-ray to rule out other possible sources of your headaches and make sure chiropractic care is safe for you.
• Chiropractic adjustment — A spinal manipulation is the chief practice of any chiropractor in Fridley, MN. If there are no complications causing an adjustment to be unsafe 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 correct 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 smooth out any scar tissue. Massage therapy also helps in headache relief by releasing dopamine, serotonin, endorphins, and oxytocin to reduce stress.
• Patient Education — Chiropractors are trained to find the causes of headaches in the spine and elsewhere. We'll help you with tips on your lifestyle to use outside of your chiropractic appointments, such as a nutritious diet, proper posture, light exercise you can perform at home and work to correct imbalances, and teach you healthy ergonomics.

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

Other conditions we treat in Fridley, MN include:

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

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

Often, it is difficult for us to understand how how debilitating headaches actually are until you receive professional chiropractic treatment in Fridley, MN. We offer holistic headache relief so that headaches do not have to be a part of your daily or weekly life. If you're seeking lasting headache relief in Fridley, MN, or are interested in any of our other services, give us a call today at (763) 568-7869 or contact us online.