Minster Chiropractic Center Offers Chiropractic Care for Headache Relief
Minster headache. It is a condition many people experience. Cervicogenic and tension-type headaches are two of the more often talked about types. The cervicogenic headache is associated with issues with the cervical disc, facets, and joints. The tension-type headache is associated with the muscles of the neck caused by stress or peculiar head positioning. Both headache forms tend to respond to gentle, safe stretching type treatment like Cox® Technic used at Minster Chiropractic Center.
SOURCE OF TENSION-TYPE HEADACHE: Neck Muscle, Stress, Position
Tension type headache is noted as the second most common health concern around the world. A new review of published papers for its treatment explained that manual joint mobilization techniques, supervised physical therapy, acupuncture, psychological care, and patient education were as beneficial for decreasing headache frequency, improving quality of life, lessening pain intensity, and diminishing stress symptoms. (1) Minster Chiropractic Center welcomes Minster tension-headache sufferers and their fellow cervicogenic headache sufferers.
SOURCE OF HEADACHE: Cervical Joint
Minster chiropractic patients want to know why they have a headache. A current study described how researchers utilized diagnostic block testing to pinpoint the cervical spine joint source of the headache. Generally, the C2-3 level was the most frequent source. In patients whose dominant complaint was headache over neck pain, the C2-3 was the source for 62%, C1-2 for 7%, and C3-4 for 6%. For patients whose neck pain was worse than the headache, C2-3 was the source for 42%, lower cervical joints for 18%, and C3-4 for 7%. (2) Not that every Minster headache sufferer must undergo this type of procedure to be helped, but the results were enlightening for healthcare providers to help diagnose and set up a treatment plan for headache patients more beneficially.
MANUAL TREATMENT FOR HEADACHE
In a review of published clinical trials, researchers noted that spinal manipulation was used often to manage cervicogenic headache. Spinal manipulation was effective, provided superior, small, short term benefits for reducing pain, headache frequency, and related disability compared with other manual treatment. (3) One relieving treatment called SNAGs (sustained natural apophyseal glides) has been described in the medical literature. In a placebo vs SNAG study, researchers explained how SNAGs were effective for pain reduction and neck disability drop as well as range of motion improvement for women with cervicogenic headache. (4) Manual therapy approaches like this help headache. Minster Chiropractic Center provides Cox® Technic, a gliding, doctor-controlled neck treatment for such conditions as Minster headache and neck pain.
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Listen to the PODCAST with Dr. David Kulla on the Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares the effective, gentle treatment with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his patient with headache and neck pain and enhanced her quality of life.
Make your next Minster headache chiropractic appointment with Minster Chiropractic Center. Annoying, life-disrupting headaches may meet their match at Minster Chiropractic Center for relief of pain and disability.
