Headache Relief Rockford, MN
Headache Relief in Rockford, MN. What do you do when you get crippling headaches and migraines? Immediately reach for the bathroom shelf for Tylenol? Lie down? Try to battle through it and go about your day, knowing it's going to be hard for you to do what you need to do? More and more people in the Rockford area and throughout the Country are finding chiropractic care to be their go-to option for 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.
Types of Headache Relief in Rockford, MN
Headaches are classified in over 150 distinct ways. Those 150 are divided 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 cancer, a brain injury, hypertension, or an ear infection. Rockford, MN chiropractors normally provide headache relief for the first category. There are four ordinary types of those headaches:
Migraine Headaches
Most people find that migraines affect only part of the head. Migraines affect approximately just over one-tenth of the population, and one-fourth of those cases are migraines with aura, or visual interferences that are warning signs that a migraine is about to take place. Aura's can last between a few minutes and 60 minutes and can include:
- Blind spots
- Seeing flickering lights
- Partial loss of vision
- Numbness
- Muscle fatigue
- Language difficulty
Once a migraine starts, symptoms include nausea, sensitivity to light/sound, and pain in the face or neck. The level of pain can vary in severity, and symptoms last just a few hours to 72 hours. Anyone who's suffered from migraines knows how difficult they are to deal with.
Migraines can cause vertigo, which is not only painful but heightens chance of injury because it leads to imbalance.
Tension Headaches
Most headaches that most people experience are tension headaches, which are often associated with muscle tension in the neck. Also called "hatband" headaches because it feels like a tight band is going around your head, and they affect up to 70% of the global population at least once. They usually onset 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 pain, other symptoms can be tenderness of the face, head, neck, and shoulders, pressure 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 and often come in half-hour to two-hour episodes over a period of 24 hours. Some people experience up to eight attacks per day. Symptoms include:
- Intense piercing pain behind one eye
- Crying
- A swollen eyelid
- A runny nose
- Sensitivity to light/sound
- Restlessness
Hemicrania Continua
Hemicrania continua is a type of headache disorder that causes continuous pain that can last for months and that can vary in severity but always occurs on one side 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, ptosis, red eyes or tearing, and eye soreness.
Other types of headaches are caused by outside factors, such as an exercose headache after physical activity, or a caffeine headache from suddenly stopping coffee intake. Other times headaches manifest themselves as symptoms of sinus or allergy issues. While people in Rockford, MN most often seek chiropractic care for primary headache relief, seeing a chiropractor can contribute to your total health that reduces the likelihood and severity of secondary headaches also.
Why Do Headaches Happen? | Rockford, MN Headache Relief
Genetics are an important factor in migraines and other headaches. Lifestyle choices like excessive exercise, no getting enough sleep either one night or consistently, posture, and insufficient nutrition can contribute to the frequency and severity of headaches. Outside factors like specific lights, noises, odors, stress, a whiplash injury from an auto wreck, and even the weather also frequently cause headaches.
In today's world, most Rockford, MN residents live a more sedentary lifestyle than previous generations. Many of us spend much of our day sitting down, looking at a phone, laying down 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? Unhealthy lifestyle choices, and outside elements cause increased tension in the joints and soft tissue from your shoulders through your neck, 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. That misalignment leads to cervicogenic headaches that affect the nerves that run through the base of your head, your temples, and behind your eyes, making headache relief necessary.
Total Spine MN's Approach to Headache Relief in Rockford, MN
As headaches are a dysfunction of the nervous system, chiropractic care can provide headache relief by helping your nervous system function more smoothly. Over-the-counter medications are what a lot of us Rockford, MN go to for headache relief, but in fact using too much medication to treat headaches can lead to medication overuse headaches.
Increasingly more people are instead discovering the benefits of chiropractic care for their headache relief. One study reported that headache disorders are the third most common reason people seekout a chiropractor. Our Rockford, MN chiropractic clinic can offer lasting headache relief with the following treatment modalities:
- Your first visit— When we first see you, we'll carefully examine your joints and spinal cord and perform an X-ray to eliminate other potential causes of your headaches and make sure chiropractic care is safe for you.
- Chiropractic adjustment — A spinal manipulation is the main technique of any chiropractor in Rockford, MN. If chiropractic care 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 your posture, and do away with 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 alleviates headaches by releasing "feel good" chemical messengers to reduce tension.
- Further Instruction — Chiropractors know how to find the causes of headaches, in both your spinal cord and in your daily life. We'll offer you tips on your lifestyle 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 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 services we offer in Rockford, MN include:
- Herniated Disc Treatment
- Work Injury Treatment
- Family Chiropractic
- Massage Therapy
- Auto Accident Chiropractors Near Me
- Chiropractor
- Chiropractic Adjustment
- Whiplash Treatment
- Migraine Treatment
Rockford, MN Headache Relief | Total Spine Health & Injury Center
Sometimes, we don't have a good grasp on how good you are really capable of feeling until receiving the benefit of chiropractic treatment in Rockford, MN. We offer comprehensive headache relief so that you do not have to live with the constant worry of a headache coming on. If you're seeking meaningful headache relief in Rockford, MN, or are interested in any of our other services, give us a call today at (763) 568-7869 or schedule an appointment online.