Millions of Americans experience headaches. Some are dull and constant, while others are intense and come on sporadically. Either way, those who get headaches want nothing more than to end them.
Your headaches may arise for several reasons; some of the most common include:
- Soft tissue or spinal dysfunctional
- Mental stress
- Your unique body mechanics or lifestyle
- Triggers
Like most pain, headache pain is often accelerated or exasperated due to stress and anxiety. In fact, many headaches are due to stress and anxiety alone due to how the body responds to those factors. Understanding the reason for your headaches is essential and will help you determine how to best treat and avoid them.
Our Anaheim headache chiropractic office provides safe, natural care to compromised areas of the spine, as well as hindered tissues that often generate headaches and lead to further injury. We’ll provide you with resources and tools to ensure your body is properly functioning, maintain good health, reduce stress and tension, and educate you on headache control.
Your headaches don’t have to stand between you and a productive day. Let’s get you the help you need.
We Manage Headache Pain Safely & Drug-Free
Headaches come in many forms, ranging from mild to severe. At our chiropractic clinic, we provide specialized, natural care for headaches caused by trauma, stress, and dysfunctions in the spine, neck, and back.
Addressing the underlying imbalances in the spine, joints, and soft tissues can restore proper movement and function and effectively target the root cause of headaches. This can help alleviate headache symptoms and frequency without relying on pain medication.
Tension Headaches
Tension headaches result from tightening or contracting muscles in the neck and scalp. These contractions are often triggered by stress, anxiety, depression, or head injuries. They can affect individuals of any age, activity level, or lifestyle.
When experiencing stress or anxiety, the body releases hormones and chemicals that help you prepare to handle the situation causing this reaction.
These reactions offer numerous advantages to prepare the body for fight-or-flight, such as:
- Increased heart rate
- Reduced nonessential functions
- Shoulder tension
- Feelings of unease or worry
- Insomnia
While these things appear destructive at first glance, they actually tell your body and mind that something is wrong. This is important for handling stress and removing yourself from harm’s way. However, when they become chronic, headaches are a common side effect.
Common symptoms of tension headaches include:
- Pain that feels like a band around the head
- Dull or aching pain on both sides of the head
- Mild to moderate pressure in the head
- Muscle tenderness
- Tight and sore neck and shoulder muscles
- Sensitivity to light and sound
Tension headaches are sometimes short-lived and you may be able to treat them at home with ice and heat therapy on the neck and shoulder muscles. However, you should visit our chiropractor to get a proper diagnosis.
We offer tips to help you navigate stress and ensure things like posture and movement patterns aren’t further disrupting your function and prompting a headache reaction.
Migraine Headaches
Migraines are among the most common types of headaches, though their exact cause is often unclear. Environmental factors, stress, or dysfunction in the neck joints typically trigger them.
Migraines are vascular headaches linked to blood vessels in the head and neck. Because restricted blood flow can lead to migraines, maintaining proper circulation and oxygen delivery to the head may help reduce their frequency and severity.
Typical migraine symptoms include:
- Nausea and vomiting
- Throbbing or pulsing pain, often on one side of the head
- Heightened sensitivity to light, sound, and smells
When a migraine begins, minimize exposure to light, rest your eyes by stepping away from screens, avoid stressful situations, and focus on relaxation to help alleviate the symptoms.
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Chiropractic Headache Treatments in Anaheim
Identifying the origin of your headaches is essential to creating an effective healing plan. Our chiropractic team will conduct a thorough physical evaluation to assess your movement, functionality, and performance and review all relevant aspects of your lifestyle and habits.
We’ll create a comprehensive strategy that nurtures good health and corrects neck and spine imbalances.
Some of our headache treatments include:
- Chiropractic adjustments and spinal manipulation
- Ultrasound
- E-stim
- Cold laser therapy
- Therapeutic exercise
- Taping
- Cupping
- Instrument-Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization
- Massage therapy
We also provide ergonomic and postural support to further your headache avoidance.
Work from a desk? Send us a picture of your workspace, and our team will help you set up your space with ergonomic support and offer tips that promote a strong, healthy body as you sit through your workday.
If you’re heading to the medicine cabinet every time a headache occurs, let’s minimize that need. Living without headaches is possible; let’s prove it.
Benefits of Chiropractic for Headaches
We’ve seen our headache-reducing solutions successfully help numerous kinds of patients with different types of headaches.
Headache patients we work with include:
- Whiplash patients
- Patients with sports-related injuries
- Work-related injuries and worker’s compensation patients
- Neck injury patients
- Back injury patients
- Patients with spine and disc injuries or dysfunction
- Patients with joint dysfunction
- Those with postural dysfunction
- And others
Chiropractic solutions are safe and noninvasive, making them a responsible method of treatment for headache sufferers who are already experiencing trauma.
Other benefits of getting chiropractic treatments for headaches include:
- Enhances comfort and flexibility
- Improves movement and overall health
- Improves spinal health and function
- Reduces reliance on pain medication or surgery
- Alleviates stress while promoting relaxation
- Boosts energy, focus, and productivity
- Provides education and lifestyle guidance
A healthy, pain-free body can significantly enhance your quality of life. Even mild headaches can disrupt your routine and add unnecessary stress. Let us help you end them. Together, we’ll create a personalized treatment plan to restore your strength, comfort, and confidence. Let’s get started.
