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Sitka Headache Relief with Exercise and Chiropractic

Headache. Doesn’t the word make your head ache?!

Today’s busy world, its fast pace and stress, leaves many Sitka folks struggling with headache. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka sees it every day. Many Sitka chiropractic patients seek relief of their headache pain with Sitka chiropractic care. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka combines chiropractic treatment with suggested exercise to many headache sufferers to manage and find relief of headache pain.
 
Causes 

First, what triggers a chronic tension-type headache? Emotional and physical issues but not necessarily depression or anxiety explains one article. (1) Sitka friends and family can see how physical and emotional issues affect headaches. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka always has time to listen when a Sitka chiropractic patient needs to talk about life and its many twists and turns. Life has a huge effect on how we all navigate in our Sitka intertwined lives. Even Sitka young people have tension headaches. Families and healthcare providers working with girls between the ages of 9 and 18 years who have tension headaches are concerned. (2) All Sitka headache sufferers desire one thing: help for headache pain relief.

Approaches to Relief 

Regrettably, chronic daily headache sufferers – including many Sitka headache sufferers – pursue help that ends up not helping them. One study revealed that many headache sufferers undergo needless additional diagnostic exams and ineffective treatment that lead to their misunderstanding their condition. (3) And, interestingly, researchers find more fatty infiltration in older ladies’ upper cervical spine muscles who experience cervicogenic headache. (4) So may exercise aid in decreasing these types of Sitka headaches? Great question!

Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka knows Sitka headache sufferers try a variety of approaches to alleviate their headache pain. Research reports that cognitive behavioral therapy helps some with chronic daily headache. (3) Mindfulness meditation is another approach. Those who use this also exercise moderately, experience low back pain, neck pain and headache, and report being sad, nervous and/or frequently stressed. (5) Exercise extends more benefits. Combining gentle Sitka chiropractic Cox Technic treatment to the cervical spine with neck exercises is often relieving.

Simple Exercise 

Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka reassures our Sitka headache patients that the exercises may be simple yet valuable. Cervico-scapulothoracic strengthening and endurance exercises including pressure biofeedback for chronic headache allowed small to moderate improvement of pain, function and overall help. (6) Strength training and counseling for these headaches helped reduce the headaches’ frequency and enhanced other factors like muscle balance and shoulder strength. (2) Strengthening exercises are favorable! Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka will demonstrate to you some simple strengthening exercises to relieve headache pain.

Schedule an Appointment 

Schedule a Sitka chiropractic headache relieving visit today, so that the word headache doesn’t make your head ache any more! 

 
 
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