Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre Offers Chiropractic Care for Headache Relief
Toronto headache. It’s a condition from which many people suffer. Cervicogenic and tension-type headaches are a couple of the more commonly discussed ones. The cervicogenic headache is related to issues with the cervical disc, facets, and joints. The tension-type headache is related to neck muscles caused by stress or peculiar head positioning. Both headache forms are responsive to gentle, safe stretching type treatment like Cox® Technic used at Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre.
SOURCE OF TENSION-TYPE HEADACHE: Neck Muscle, Stress, Position
Tension type headache is reported as the second most common health concern globally. A new review of published studies for its care found that manual joint mobilization techniques, supervised physical therapy, acupuncture, psychological care, and patient education were as beneficial for reducing headache frequency, enhancing quality of life, lessening pain intensity, and diminishing stress symptoms. (1) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre welcomes Toronto tension-headache sufferers and their fellow cervicogenic headache sufferers.
SOURCE OF HEADACHE: Cervical Joint
Toronto chiropractic patients want to understand the source of their headache. A recent 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 common 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 Toronto headache patient must undergo this type of procedure to be taken care of, but the results were enlightening for healthcare providers to help make a diagnosis and treat headache patients in a better way.
MANUAL TREATMENT FOR HEADACHE
In a review of published clinical trials, researchers noted that spinal manipulation was employed often to manage cervicogenic headache. Spinal manipulation was effective, provided superior, small, short term benefits for decreasing pain, headache frequency, and related disability compared with other manual approaches. (3) One relieving treatment referred to as SNAGs (sustained natural apophyseal glides) has been explained in the medical literature. In a placebo vs SNAG study, researchers found that SNAGs were good for pain reduction and neck disability decrease as well as range of motion improvement for women with cervicogenic headache. (4) Manual therapy approaches like this help headache. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre provides Cox® Technic, a gliding, doctor-controlled neck treatment for such conditions as Toronto headache and neck pain.
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Listen to the PODCAST with Dr. David Kulla on the Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares 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 Toronto headache chiropractic appointment with Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre. Bothersome, life-disrupting headaches may meet their match at Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre for relief of pain and disability.
