Sitka Headache Relief with Exercise and Chiropractic

April 18, 2017

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

Today’s busy world, its stress and fast pace, finds many Sitka folks complaining of headache. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka witnesses it every day. Many Sitka chiropractic patients pursue relief of their headache pain with Sitka chiropractic care. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka blends chiropractic treatment with suggested exercise to many headache sufferers to manage and find a break from headache pain.
 
Causes 

First, what precipitates 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 will certainly make time to listen when a Sitka chiropractic patient needs to vent about life and its many joys and challenges. Life has a huge effect on how we all navigate in our Sitka intertwined lives. Tension headaches are even seen in Sitka young people. Tension headaches in girls aged 9 to 18 years unsettle the girl’s life and raise concerns for her family and healthcare givers. (2) All Sitka headache sufferers desire one thing: relief of headache pain.

Approaches to Relief 

Sadly, chronic daily headache sufferers – including many Sitka headache sufferers – go after help that results in not helping them. One study revealed that many headache sufferers undergo unnecessary additional diagnostic exams and ineffective treatment that lead to their misunderstanding their condition. (3) And, oddly, 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 hears the frustration of Sitka headache sufferers who pursue but do not find headache pain relief. Research reports that cognitive behavioral therapy helps some with chronic daily headache. (3) Mindfulness meditation is another approach. Those who incorporate this approach also use moderate exercise, experience low back pain, neck pain and headache, and report being sad, nervous and/or frequently stressed. (5) Exercise extends more benefits. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka combines gentle Sitka chiropractic Cox Technic treatment to the cervical spine with neck exercises to enhance the relief. .

Simple Exercise 

Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka comforts our Sitka headache patients that the exercises may be simple yet valuable. Cervico-scapulothoracic strengthening and endurance exercises including pressure biofeedback for chronic headache permitted small to moderate improvement of pain, function and overall help. (6) Strength training and counseling for these headaches assisted in reducting the headaches’ frequency and improved 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 does not cause your head ache any longer!