Headache Relief

The pain you feel when you have a headache is not located in your brain, even though it feels that way. The pain is actually sensed by nerve endings located in your head and neck. Many types of events, inside and outside of your body, serve as “triggers” that can bring on a headache. Knowing what most often triggers your headaches can help you avoid them. Chiropractors locate the misalignments in your spine and relieve the pressure on adjacent nerves.

For most of us the most common triggers are emotional (stress, anger, anxiety), food-related (processed foods such as cold cuts, alcohol, nuts, and dairy products), hormonal (birth control pills, menstruation, menopause), environmental (noise, air travel, changes in temperature/humidity), or physiological (illness, skipping a meal, overtiredness).

Chiropractors are trained to locate and correct misalignments in the vertebrae in the upper spine and neck. These misalignments put pressure on adjacent nerves ~ pressure that can cause your headaches. When those emotional triggers bring on a headache don't reach for those headache pills that only cover the symptoms, call our office and take care of the problem causing those headaches. Below is a testimony from one of our patients who came to our office with headache complaints. Take a moment and read her story.