Carrolltown Chiropractic Care of Headache and Tips for Headache and Migraine Prevention
Headaches and migraines are unwelcome visitors. Headache sufferers are usually very open to tips on how to avoid them. Over 50 years of age, sufferers of migraine, a primary headache, find themselves part of a global community with migraine being a foremost cause of disability. (1) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation has some prevention tips and treatment relief ideas just for our Carrolltown headache and migraine sufferers.
DIET AND WEIGHT
A healthy diet nourishes the body and the mind. Researchers have discussed that migraine triggers come in many different forms - environmental, hormonal, and dietary. A high-quality diet successfully helps handle migraine. Further, and more specifically, women with chronic migraine ate a lower diet quality than that of women who had episodic migraine. (2) Another study was even more specific with the kind of diet helpful to migraine patients, particularly those who are overweight. A very low-calorie ketogenic diet was revealed to be episodic-migraine preventative. Effectiveness was observed within one month of the diet change. (3) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is not recommending that any of our patients start a certain type of diet now! If a Carrolltown headache sufferer chooses to try a new diet, Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is here to talk and decide which diet (if any special one) is proper.
NUTRITION: Vitamin D
The same goes for vitamin D supplementation. Vitamin D deficiency has been found in 45% to 100% of migraine sufferers. The anti-inflammatory and antioxidant qualities of vitamin D have opened its supplementation to considered inclusion in the care and prevention of headache and migraine. One study reported that trial doses of 1000-4000 IU per day reduced the frequency of migraine including the routine drug therapy. More research needs to be completed, but vitamin D supplementation appears encouraging. (1) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation studies the nutrition of each individual Carrolltown chiropractic patient and recommends supplementation when appropriate.
CHIROPRACTIC AND INTEGRATIVE CARE
Headaches of all varieties – primary headaches like migraine and tension-type headache – are common complaints brought to the Carrolltown chiropractor. Research reported that complementary and integrative medicine - nutrition, movement (yoga), manual therapy, traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, massage, biofeedback, meditation, and mind-body strategies – was beneficial. More specifically, spinal manipulation, chiropractic care, some supplements, diet change and hydrotherapy are reported beneficial for migraine headache. (4)
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Mike Poulin on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson who presented the treatment of headache with chiropractic care of the cervical spine featuring spinal manipulation in the form of Cox® Technic.
CONTACT Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation
Schedule a Carrolltown chiropractic appointment with Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation today. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation welcomes headache and/or migraine sufferers for preventive and relieving care like modifying your diet, supplementing with vitamin D, and treating with spinal manipulation.
