St Peters Headache Relief with Exercise and Chiropractic

Headache. Doesn’t the word make your head ache?!

First, what brings on a chronic tension-type headache? Emotional and physical issues but not necessarily depression or anxiety explains one article. (1) St Peters friends and family can relate to the emotional and physical influences on headaches. Old Mill Chiropractic will certainly make time to listen when a St Peters chiropractic patient needs to talk about life and its many joys and challenges. Life has a huge effect on how we all navigate in our St Peters intertwined lives. Even St Peters young people have tension headaches. Tension headaches in girls aged 9 to 18 years unsettle the girl’s life and raise concerns for her family and healthcare givers. (2) All St Peters headache sufferers want one thing: relief of headache pain.

Sadly, chronic daily headache sufferers – including many St Peters headache sufferers – pursue help that results in not helping them. One study presented that many headache sufferers undergo unnecessary additional diagnostic exams and ineffective treatment that lead to their misunderstanding their condition. (3) And, oddly, older women with cervicogenic headache have more fatty infiltration in their upper cervical spine muscles. (4) So may exercise help in decreasing these types of St Peters headaches? Great question!

Old Mill Chiropractic sees the frustration of St Peters headache sufferers who pursue but don’t get headache pain relief. Research reports that cognitive behavioral therapy helps some with chronic daily headache. (3) Mindfulness meditation is another approach. Those who incorporate this approach also exercise moderately, have low back pain, neck pain and headache, and report being sad, nervous and/or frequently stressed. (5) Exercise offers more benefits. Combining gentle St Peters chiropractic Cox Technic treatment to the cervical spine with neck exercises is often relieving.

Old Mill Chiropractic comforts our St Peters headache patients that the exercises may be simple yet good. Cervico-scapulothoracic strengthening and endurance exercises including pressure biofeedback for chronic headache allowed small to moderate improvement of pain, function and overall help. (6) Strength training and counseling for these headaches assisted in reducting the headaches’ frequency and improved other factors like muscle balance and shoulder strength. (2) Strengthening exercises are beneficial! Old Mill Chiropractic will demonstrate to you some simple strengthening exercises to relieve headache pain.

Schedule a St Peters chiropractic headache relieving visit today, so that the word headache doesn’t make your head ache any longer!