Migraine Treatment

If you suffer from migraines, you might be experiencing a severe pulsing sensation or throbbing pain on one side of your head. It is typically accompanied by extreme sensitivity to sound and light, nausea and vomiting.

A migraine can last anywhere between a few hours to several days. For many folks, the pain is so severe that it interferes with their day-to-day activities.

Some people get warning symptoms called an aura before a migraine attack starts. This can include visual disturbances like blind spots or flashes of light, difficulty speaking or tingling in the face or extremities.

Those who deal with these types of migraine headaches can greatly benefit from our migraine treatment.

Who needs migraine treatment?

The symptoms of migraines are typically broken into two parts: prodrome and aura. The term prodrome refers to signs that often show up one or two days before the condition happens. These include:

• Mood swings, alternating between euphoria and depression
• Stiffness in the neck
• Constipation
• Frequent yawning
• Feeling thirsty
• Increased urination
• Food cravings

An aura is a set of migraine symptoms that can show up immediately before or during the condition. It mostly leads to visual symptoms that slowly intensify during a period of about 20 to 60 minutes. The symptoms of an aura include:

• Intense head pain
• Nausea
• Visual disturbances like flashes of light or bright spots
• A pins-and-needles sensation in one of the limbs
• A loss of vision
• Numbness and weakness on one side of the face
• Uncontrollable movements and jerking
• Difficulty speaking properly

How migraine treatment works

There are a variety of options that patients get to choose from when it comes to combating migraines. Chiropractic care typically uses a combination of massages, exercises, and spinal manipulation to prevent and treat headaches.

Besides being used to treat migraines, chiropractic care can also be used to alleviate tension headaches and cervicogenic headaches.

Migraines can be treated with certain medications like pain injections. A chiropractor typically treats migraines using the following treatments.

Neuromuscular massages: A chiropractor can ease the symptoms that come with migraines by massaging trigger points on the head, neck, shoulder, and back. Massaging these trigger points provides patients with benefits like:

• It promotes blood circulation around the affected areas
• It decreases the pain coming from the trigger points
• It reduces muscle tension and spasms
• It helps regulate hormones that might be causing the migraines, like cortisol, which is created by stress

Multidisciplinary care intervention: This approach to treating migraines involves a combination of dietary counseling, relaxation techniques, stress management therapy, and physical therapy to reduce the pain caused by a migraine. This method also helps reduce the frequency and duration of the attacks.

Put migraines behind you

A migraine attack is one of those things you simply cannot ignore. It can take the joy out of life and prevent you from doing the things you love. Schedule an appointment with our Ooltewah chiropractic office today. Don't let yourself continue to suffer by avoiding proper treatment. Let us help. Call today.

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