McHenry Chiropractic Care to Help Relieve Migraine Pain
Migraine sufferers are not by themselves. About 15% of US adults suffer with migraine. More women than men are troubled by migraine. Women tend to suffer migraine three times as often as men do. (1) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is not alone in wanting to help migraine sufferers get relief. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is delighted to contribute to the migraine relief effort with its gentle McHenry chiropractic care.
TREATMENTS FOR MIGRAINE: MEDS & CHIROPRACTIC & MORE
How do migraine sufferers deal with their migraine? They turn to medications. Meds are first line treatment options, yet around 50% of migraine sufferers are now trying complementary and integrative medicine. One research team has organized a research project studying the chiropractic care of migraine since migraine and musculoskeletal tension and pain often occur together. They called their study the “Integrative Migraine Pain Alleviation through Chiropractic Therapy (IMPACT).” (1) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic anticipates their outcomes as they plan to compare multimodal chiropractic care plus usual care and usual care but itself for adult women with episodic migraine.
MIGRAINE TREATMENT OUTCOMES
Non-pharmacological interventions for migraine are usual. To ascertain if an intervention is “clinically meaningful,” researchers look for a 50% reduction in headaches. A group of researchers who looked at many published studies proposed that associated symptoms and fear of attacks would also be good outcome measures along with the 50% reduction in migraines. They also stated that the level of effectiveness for non-pharmacological interventions – particularly used with medication – should be lower if helpful. (2) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is happy to be a part of our McHenry migraine sufferers’ healthcare team for migraine relief. The 50% Rule has governed the outcomes of Cox Technic.
CHIROPRACTIC APPROACH TO MIGRAINE
Chiropractic is known for its approach to musculoskeletal pain and its relief. Since research suggested that musculoskeletal tension may have a role in migraine, chiropractic may play a role in its relief. Researchers amassed details from lots of randomized control trials of spinal manipulation for migraine relief. Treatment with spinal manipulation varied from 2 to 6 months. Preliminarily, spinal manipulation was found to be an effective therapeutic treatment to reduce migraine days and migraine intensity and pain. (3) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic uses extremely gentle spinal manipulation from the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management to relieve pain and alleviate any migraine-related musculoskeletal pain issues.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Jeremy Heidt on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes treatment of migraine and related neck pain with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Manipulation for a patient who benefitted from his chiropractic care.
Schedule a McHenry chiropractic visit with OrthoIllinois Chiropractic for adjunctive relief and care of migraine pain. McHenry migraine sufferers don’t have to suffer by themselves, do not have to cope with migraine alone. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic uses spinal manipulation and McHenry chiropractic services for some relief.
