Connected Chiropractic Offers Chiropractic Care for Headache Relief
Elgin headache. It’s a condition from which many people suffer. Cervicogenic and tension-type headaches are a couple of the more commonly talked about types. The cervicogenic headache is linked to issues with the cervical disc, facets, and joints. The tension-type headache is associated with neck muscles generated by stress or peculiar head positioning. Both headache forms tend to respond to gentle, safe stretching type treatment like Cox® Technic used at Connected Chiropractic.
SOURCE OF TENSION-TYPE HEADACHE: Neck Muscle, Stress, Position
Tension type headache is reported as the second most common health concern around the world. A new review of published papers for its treatment found that manual joint mobilization techniques, supervised physical therapy, acupuncture, psychological care, and patient education were as beneficial for decreasing headache frequency, enhancing quality of life, lessening pain intensity, and decreasing stress symptoms. (1) Connected Chiropractic welcomes Elgin tension-headache sufferers as well as their fellow cervicogenic headache sufferers.
SOURCE OF HEADACHE: Cervical Joint
Elgin chiropractic patients want to understand the source of their headache. A current study detailed how researchers utilized diagnostic block testing to find 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%. In 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 Elgin headache sufferer must undergo this type of testing to be helped, but the results were enlightening for healthcare providers to aid make a diagnosis and treat headache patients more beneficially.
MANUAL TREATMENT FOR HEADACHE
In a review of published clinical trials, researchers stated 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 approaches. (3) One relieving treatment called SNAGs (sustained natural apophyseal glides) has been described in the medical literature. In a placebo vs SNAG study, researchers found that SNAGs were good for pain reduction and neck disability decrease and range of motion improvement for women with cervicogenic headache. (4) Manual therapy treatments like this benefit headache. Connected Chiropractic uses Cox® Technic, a gliding, doctor-controlled neck treatment for such conditions as Elgin headache and neck pain.
CONTACT Connected Chiropractic
Listen to the PODCAST with Dr. David Kulla on the Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes 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.
Schedule your next Elgin headache chiropractic appointment with Connected Chiropractic. Annoying, life-disrupting headaches may meet their match at Connected Chiropractic for relief of pain and disability.
