Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office Offers Chiropractic Care for Headache Relief
Groton headache. It is a condition many people experience. Cervicogenic and tension-type headaches are a couple of the more commonly talked about ones. The cervicogenic headache is linked to issues with the cervical disc, facets, and joints. The tension-type headache is linked to neck muscles brought on by stress or peculiar head positioning. Both headache types tend to respond to gentle, safe stretching type treatment like Cox® Technic used at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office.
SOURCE OF TENSION-TYPE HEADACHE: Neck Muscle, Stress, Position
Tension type headache is noted as the second most common health concern around the globe. A recent review of published papers for its treatment explained that manual joint mobilization techniques, supervised physical therapy, acupuncture, psychological care, and patient education were as beneficial for decreasing headache frequency, enhancing quality of life, reducing pain intensity, and diminishing stress symptoms. (1) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office welcomes Groton tension-headache sufferers as well as their fellow cervicogenic headache sufferers.
SOURCE OF HEADACHE: Cervical Joint
Groton chiropractic patients want to understand the source of their headache. A recent study detailed how researchers used diagnostic block testing to pinpoint the cervical spine joint source of the headache. In general, the C2-3 level was the most common source. In patients whose chief complaint was headache more than neck pain, the C2-3 was the source for 62%, C1-2 for 7%, and C3-4 for 6%. For patients whose neck pain was greater than the headache, C2-3 was the source for 42%, lower cervical joints for 18%, and C3-4 for 7%. (2) Not that every Groton headache patient must undergo this type of testing to be helped, but the results were enlightening for healthcare providers to help make a diagnosis and set up a treatment plan for headache patients more beneficially.
MANUAL TREATMENT FOR HEADACHE
In a review of published clinical trials, researchers noted that spinal manipulation was employed often to manage cervicogenic headache. Spinal manipulation was effective, provided superior, small, short term benefits for decreasing pain, headache frequency, and related disability compared with other manual treatment. (3) One relieving treatment called SNAGs (sustained natural apophyseal glides) has been explained in the medical literature. In a placebo vs SNAG study, researchers explained how SNAGs were good for pain reduction and neck disability decrease and range of motion improvement for women with cervicogenic headache. (4) Manual therapy treatments like this benefit headache. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office provides Cox® Technic, a gliding, doctor-controlled neck treatment for such conditions as Groton headache and neck pain.
CONTACT Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office
Listen to the PODCAST with Dr. David Kulla on the Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares the effective, gentle treatment with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his patient with headache and neck pain and enhanced her quality of life.
Make your next Groton headache chiropractic appointment with Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office. Bothersome, life-disrupting headaches may meet their match at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office for relief of pain and disability.
