Pure Chiropractic Offers Chiropractic Care for Headache Relief
Concord, NC headache. It is a condition many people experience. Cervicogenic and tension-type headaches are a couple of the more often talked about ones. The cervicogenic headache is linked to issues with the cervical disc, facets, and joints. The tension-type headache is related to the muscles of the neck caused by stress or odd head positioning. Both headache types are responsive to gentle, safe stretching type treatment like Cox® Technic used at Pure Chiropractic.
SOURCE OF TENSION-TYPE HEADACHE: Neck Muscle, Stress, Position
Tension type headache is described as the second most common health concern globally. A new review of published papers for its care found 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 decreasing stress symptoms. (1) Pure Chiropractic welcomes Concord, NC tension-headache sufferers and their fellow cervicogenic headache sufferers.
SOURCE OF HEADACHE: Cervical Joint
Concord, NC chiropractic patients want to know why they have a headache. A current study detailed how researchers utilized diagnostic block testing to find the cervical spine joint source of the headache. In general, the C2-3 level was the most frequent source. In patients whose dominant complaint was headache more than 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 Concord, NC headache patient must experience this type of testing to be taken care of, but the results were interesting for healthcare providers to aid make a diagnosis and treat headache patients in a better way.
MANUAL TREATMENT FOR HEADACHE
In a review of published clinical trials, researchers stated that spinal manipulation was employed often to manage cervicogenic headache. Spinal manipulation was effective, supplied superior, small, short term benefits for reducing pain, headache frequency, and related disability compared with other manual approaches. (3) One relieving treatment referred to as 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 decrease as well as range of motion improvement for women with cervicogenic headache. (4) Manual therapy treatments like this help headache. Pure Chiropractic uses Cox® Technic, a gliding, doctor-controlled neck treatment for such conditions as Concord, NC headache and neck pain.
CONTACT Pure Chiropractic
Listen to the PODCAST with Dr. David Kulla on the Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the effectiveness and gentleness of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his patient with headache and neck pain and enhanced her quality of life.
Schedule your next Concord, NC headache chiropractic appointment with Pure Chiropractic. Annoying, life-disrupting headaches may meet their match at Pure Chiropractic for relief of pain and disability.
