Minnetonka, MN

Headache Relief Minnetonka, MN

Headache Relief in Minnetonka, MN. How do you usually deal with debilitating headaches and migraines? Immediately reach for the shelf for Advil? Try to take a nap? Try to battle through it and get through your day, knowing it's going to be hard for you to get your chores or work done? More and more Minnetonka residents are turning to chiropractic care as their preferred method of treatment for headache relief. If headaches are making it difficult for you to feel like your true self, speak to a professional chiropractor today at (763) 568-7869 or schedule an appointment online.

Headaches We Offer Relief For in Minnetonka, MN

There are more than 150 types of headaches. Those 150 are divided into two larger categories: primary headaches, which are not the cause of an underlying health concern but are the focus of treatment, and secondary headaches, which are caused by health issues like a tumor, a brain injury, hypertension, or the flu. Minnetonka, MN chiropractors normally focus headache relief for headaches that are not caused by an underlying condition. There are four ordinary types of those headaches:

Migraine Headaches

Most people find that migraines cause pain on one side of the head. An estimated 12% of the population suffers from migraines, 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 weakness
• Difficulty speaking

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

Migraines are a frequent cause of vertigo, which makes migraines dangerous because it increases possibility of injury because of falling.

Tension Headaches

These are the most common type of headaches and muscle tension in the neck is a a telltale sign. Also referred to as "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 generally onset with a pressure-like symptom that develops into a dull pain, and can last for a half hour, several hours, or even days. In addition to pressure, other symptoms can be tenderness around your upper body from the shoulders up, pressure behind the eyes, and fear of loud sounds. Tension headaches are just as difficult to deal with as migraines, and often can originate as or lead to migraines.

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 burning sensation behind one eye
• Crying
• An inflamed eyelid
• A congested nose
• Sensitivity to light/sound
• Restlessness

Hemicrania Continua

Hemicrania continua is a type of headache disorder that causes constant 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 nasal congestion, ptosis, red eyes or watering eyes, and eye soreness.

Other types of headaches are caused by specific events, such as an exertion headache after intense physical activity or training, or a caffeine headache from caffeine withdrawal. Allergies or sinus infections also cause headaches. While chiropractic care is normally sought for primary headache relief in Minnetonka, MN, spinal adjustments and other chiropractic treatments can be an essential part of total health that can help dissuade secondary headaches also.

What Causes Headaches? | Minnetonka, MN Headache Relief

Genetics are an important factor in migraines and other headaches. Lifestyle choices like intense physical exercise, no getting enough sleep either one night or consistently, how you sit, stand, and move, and not eating well can cause headaches to occur more frequently and be more severe. External elements like specific lights, sounds, smells, emotional or mental tension, a whiplash injury from an auto accident, and even the weather also frequently cause headaches.

In contemporary society, most Minnetonka, MN residents are more sedentary than their predecessors. Many of us spend much of our day sitting down, 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 sensory overloads that can act as stressors that cause headaches.

But what is physically happening to cause headaches? Poor posture, and outside stressors cause increased tension in the joints and muscles of the neck, shoulders, and upper back, and can cause our spine to go out of alignment. This creates havoc for the the C1 and C2 vertebrae, the the two vertebrae the base of the skull. That irritation leads to cervicogenic headaches that affect the nerves that run through the base of your head, your temples, and behind your eyes, causing pain and leading you to search for headache relief.

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

As headaches are a dysfunction 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 Minnetonka, MN try for headache relief, but in fact using too much medication to treat headaches can cause medication overuse headaches.

Increasingly more people are instead why chiropractic care is a great option for headache relief. One study reported that 87.2% of chiropractic patients were seeking treatment for headache conditions. Our Minnetonka, MN chiropractic clinic can help you find significant headache relief with the following treatment modalities:

• Your first visit— The first time you come to use for treatment, we'll carefully examine your joints and spinal cord and take an X-ray to rule out other potential sources 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 Minnetonka, MN. If we find an adjustment is safe for you, our licenses 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 correct disruption in your nervous system caused by spinal misalignment.
• Message Therapy — A message of the upper portion of your body 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 dopamine, serotonin, endorphins, and oxytocin to reduce tension.
• Patient Instruction — Chiropractors are able to find the causes of headaches in the spine and elsewhere. We'll give you tips on living healthier to use when you're not in our clinic, such as proper nutrition, better posture, light exercise you can perform at home and work to correct imbalances, and educate you on ergonomics.

Our business is called Total Spine Health & Injury Center for good reason. There are many things we can do to get you feeling back to how you should and improve your overall health.

Other conditions we treat in Minnetonka, 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

Minnetonka, 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 Minnetonka, MN. We take a comprehensive 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 Minnetonka, MN, or are interested in any of our other services, give us a call today at (763) 568-7869 or contact us online.