Chiropractic treatment Can Often Help Your Headaches

Headaches are sometimes dismissed as ailments that can be easily fixed by taking a over-the-counter pain medication. Although this may be helpful for that once in a while headache, it’s not always effective for chronic headaches. Pain relievers can also cause damage to the liver or kidney and other serious side effects if you take too many of them. Fortunately, chiropractic treatment offers a drug-free option.

Different kind of headaches:

Chiropractors often take care of patients who have these types of headaches:

• Tension Headaches: Tension headaches occur when the muscles in your neck and head tighten and become too restricted. Some people feel tightness and pain in their forehead, or the pain may wrap around to the back one’s head and neck. The headaches can be caused by stress, poor posture, or even flexing your head down at your cell phone for hours.
• Migraine Headaches: Migraines are the sixth most disabling illness in the world.  They affect 18 percent of women, 6 percent of men and 10 percent of children in the U.S., according to the Migraine Research Foundation. Some of the symptoms are pain, nausea, vomiting, light or sound sensitivity as well as other symptoms and can affect the quality of your life and make it difficult to work or care for your family.
• Cluster Headaches: These extremely painful headaches typically occur on one side of the head and last several minutes to several hours. They’re called “cluster” headaches because the sufferer usually get multiple headaches in one day. The headaches can disappear for months at a time and may reappear at the same times every year.