Migraine & Headache Treatments
Migraine & Headache Treatments


LOOKING FOR HELP WITH MIGRAINES?

TRY ACUPUNCTURE AND CHINESE HERBS

MIGRAINE AND HEADACHE – IS A PAIN PRESENTING ANYWHERE ON THE HEAD OR NECK, RESULTING FROM MANY CONDITIONS.

  • DEHYDRATION
  • FATIGUE
  • SLEEP DEPRIVATION
  • STRESS
  • EFFECTS OF MEDICATION OR DRUGS
  • VIRAL INFECTIONS, COMMON COLD
  • LOUD NOISES
  • INDIGESTION, COLD FOODS OR FLUIDS
  • STRUCTUAL PROBLEMS
  • HEAD INJURIES/VASCULAR DISORDERS
  • DENTAL OR SINUS ISSUES

THERE ARE MANY TYPES OF HEADACHES, TENSION HEADACHES BEING THE MOST COMMON FOLLOWED BY MIGRAINE HEADACHES. SOME MAY BE HARMLESS SOME ARE MOST DEBILITATING. NEUROLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS CAN DETERMINE IF MORE TESTS ARE NEEDED.

ARE BENIGN, RECURRENT HEADACHES NOT CAUSED BY ANY UNDERLYING DISEASE OR STRUCTURAL PROBLEM. MIGRAINE CAN BE A TYPE OF PRIMARY HEADACHE CAUSING SIGNIFICANT PAIN AND DISABILITY THEY ARE NOT DANGEROUS. PRIMARY HEADACHES ARE MORE COMMON.

 

SECONDARY HEADACHES  CAN BE HARMLESS OR DANGEROUS, THESE ARE TENSION HEADACHES AND MIGRAINES.

1.TENSION HEADACHES – NON-PULSING BAND LIKE PRESSURE ON BOTH SIDES OF HEAD WITH NO OTHER ACCOMPANYING SYMPTOMS.

2.MIGRAINES – PULSING HEAD PAIN, WITH NAUSEA VOMITING, PHOTOPHOBIA, PHONOPHOBIA.

3.OTHER HEADACHES, CLUSTER HEADACHES, OCCIPITAL HEADACHES, FRONTAL HEADACHES, TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA.

SECONDARY HEADACHES –

ARE A RESULT OF PROBLEMS ELSEWHERE IN THE HEAD NECK.

1.CERVICOGENIC HEADACHES – ARISING FROM NECK MUSCLE

2. MEDICATION OVERUSE HEADACHES

OTHER SECONDARY HEADACHES ARE MORE LIFE THREATHENING AND REQUIRE MEDICAL TREATMENT.

ACUPUNCTURE AND PAIN RELIEF

ACUPUNCTURE HAS BEEN USED IN ANESTHESIOLOGY AND PAIN MEDICINE FOR YEARS IN CHINA, IT IS PROVING TO BE BENEFICIAL IN PAIN MANAGEMENT IN CURRENT TIMES.

PAIN IS TRANSMITTED THROUGH SMALL NERVE FIBERS FROM THE SKIN THROUGH THE SPINAL CORD TO THE BRAIN. ALSO, PRESENT ARE LARGER FIBERS THAT NORMALLY SEND INHIBITORY SIGNALS TO THE SMALL PAIN FIBERS TO PREVENT A PAIN SIGNAL FROM BEING TRIGGERED.

WHEN PAIN OCCURS THE SMALL NERVE, FIBERS OVERWHELMS THE LARGE NERVE FIBERS RESULTING IN PAIN.

ACUPUNCTURE REDUCES PAIN BY STIMULATING THE LARGE NERVE FIBERS TO OVERWHELM AND INHIBIT THE SMALL FIBERS, THEREBY INHIBITING PAIN.

ACUPUNCTURE CAN ALSO STIMULATE THE RELEASE OF ENDORPHINS, THE BODYS NATURAL PAIN KILLERS AND FEEL GOOD CHEMICALS. ACUPUNCTURE IS LINKED TO HIGHER LEVELS OF BETA-ENDORPHINS IN THE BLOOD.

MASSAGE WILL RELEASE TIGHT NECK AND SHOULDER MUSCLES AND RELEASE ENDORPHINS.

CHINESE HERBS CAN BE USED TO AID IN BETTER SLEEP, IMPROVE DIGESTION AND SUPPORTING THE IMMUNE SYSTEM. CHINESE HERBS NEED TO BE INDIVUALLY PRESCRIBED TO SUIT YOUR NEEDS. MAKE AN APPOINTMENT TODAY TO GET A PLAN FOR YOU.

DISCUSS A TREATMENT PLAN WITH YOUR ACUPUNCTURIST TODAY REMEMBERING EACH PATIENT RESPONDS INDIVIDUALLY TO THEIR TREATMENT AND TREATMENT PLAN

BE SURE TO USE A REGISTERED ACUPUNCTURE.

 

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