Groton Migraine Sufferers May Find Exercise and Chiropractic Help
Migraine is a frustrating condition for its sufferers. It is costly in terms of pain, money, and pharmacological use need. Drugs remain the “gold standard” of care. Patients often ask their migraine healthcare providers for non-pharamacological options. Groton migraine sufferers want alternative ideas! Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office suggests that exercise may be one such positive choice.
EXERCISE FOR CHRONIC PAIN
Migraine is, for most Groton migraine sufferers, a chronic pain condition. It’s not typically a one time condition. Chronic pain affects the nervous system and the specific pain-generator. Researchers described 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 worsening disability. These changes do not emerge overnight. They come with long-term, consistent, individualized exercise giving rise to improvement in pain and function. (1) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office reminds our Groton chiropractic patients with all types of conditions that it is slow and steady commitment that gets the result.
EXERCISE FOR MIGRAINE BEING STUDIED
Researchers and migraine sufferers alike hold out hope for a simple, inexpensive approach to migraine care. For example, a new comparison project of neck-specific exercise versus sham ultrasound to reduce the frequency and intensity of migraine attacks. (2) A new meta-analysis in Headache stated that aerobic exercise for migraine patients dropped the number of migraine days. (3) These are beneficial outcomes for Groton migraine treatment.
EXERCISE BENEFITS: Overall and Migraine Specific
Groton chiropractic patients are manytimes urged to exercise. Exercise seems like a recommended panacea for everything from back pain to migraine to depression to neck pain and so much more. Why? It works. Exercise suppresses inflammation via reduction of inflammatory modulators (many cytokines) and stress hormones (growth hormone and cortisol). Exercise positively impacts the microvascular system that certainly 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 decrease in migraine frequency, intensity and duration. That is welcomed by Groton migraine sufferers! Naturally, higher intensity exercise seems to bring about more benefit. Pharmacological drugs like topiramate were reported to be better than exercise, but including exercise into its use was suggested to be beneficial. Migraine sufferers who also have neck pain or tension headache are reported as benefiting from exercise. Low impact is valuable if high impact exercise is not doable. (4) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office agrees with the researchers’ outcome: exercise is a practical evidence-based recommendation for migraine prevention.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. David Kulla on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes how he followed The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his patient with migraine which incorporated Cox® Technic spinal manipulation as well as exercise for welcomed relief by his patient.
