Migraine is a frustrating
condition for its sufferers. It’s expensive in terms of
pain, money, and pharmacological use necessity. Drugs are still
the “gold standard” of care. Patients often ask their
migraine healthcare providers for non-pharamacological options.
Carrolltown migraine sufferers want alternative ideas!
Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation puts forward that exercise may be one
such beneficial option.
EXERCISE FOR CHRONIC PAIN
Migraine is, for most Carrolltown migraine sufferers,
a chronic pain condition. It’s not usually a one and done condition. Chronic pain disrupts
the nervous system and the specific pain-generating
issue. Researchers explained evidence that exercise helps a
variety of chronic pain conditions including migraine directly and indirectly
with a goal of changing the cycle of pain,
sedentariness, and declining disability. These
changes don’t come overnight. They come with
long-term, consistent, individualized exercise giving rise to improvement in pain and function. (1) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation reminds
our Carrolltown chiropractic patients with all types of
conditions that it’s slow and steady commitment that results in desired
outcomes.
EXERCISE FOR MIGRAINE BEING STUDIED
Researchers and migraine sufferers alike hold out hope for a
simple, low-cost approach to migraine care. Case in point, a new comparison study of
neck-specific exercise versus sham ultrasound to reduce
the frequency and intensity of migraine attacks. (2) A recent meta-analysis
in Headache stated that aerobic exercise for migraine patients
decreased the number of migraine days. (3) These are valuable
outcomes for Carrolltown migraine treatment.
EXERCISE BENEFITS: Overall and Migraine Specific
Carrolltown chiropractic patients are often
encouraged to exercise. Exercise appears to be a recommended
panacea for everything from back pain to migraine to depression to neck pain
and so much more. Why? It works. Exercise stifles inflammation
via reduction of inflammatory modulators (many cytokines) and stress hormones
(growth hormone and cortisol). Exercise constructively impacts
the microvascular system that possibly influences
a certain type of cortical spreading depression. Specific
to migraine, exercise helped migraine self-efficacy by allowing
the migraine sufferer to have a sense of control which lessened
migraine burden. How much exercise produces this type of effect?
“Sufficiently rigorous aerobic exercise” brought about statistically
significant drop in migraine frequency, intensity and
duration. That’s appreciated by Carrolltown
migraine sufferers! Of course, higher intensity exercise appears
to bring about more benefit. Pharmacological drugs like topiramate were
reported to be superior to exercise, but including
exercise into its use was suggested to provide
benefit. Migraine sufferers
who also experience neck pain or tension headache are reported as
benefiting from exercise. Low impact is valuable
if high impact exercise is not doable. (4) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation concurs
with the researchers’ outcome: exercise is a reasonable
evidence-based recommendation for migraine prevention.
CONTACT Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. David Kulla on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares
how he followed The
Cox®
Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his patient with
migraine which included Cox® Technic spinal manipulation
as well as exercise for welcomed relief by his patient.