If you know someone who suffers with headaches (or if you deal with headaches) you know what a horrible thing they are. Did you know that the Center fro Disease Control estimates that 45 million Americans suffer with severe headaches? You are not alone!
Now there are many type of headaches that these 45 million Americans suffer with, but the most common type is a cervicogenic headache (sometimes known as a tension headache). Cervicogenic headaches are headaches that come from, or originate from the neck.
In my practice in Bellevue Washington I have found that a major cause of cervicogenic headaches is misalignment or improper movement of the upper neck. If the bones in the upper part of the neck become misaligned this puts pressure and stress on the blood vessels, nerves, and joints of the neck. Taking a look at just the blood vessels, pressure can mean a decrease in blood flow to the brain. This is a bad thing! The one way that your body has to tell you that there is a problem is to give you headache.
It is a lot like the fire alarm in your house. When the fire alarm goes off in your house, there is probably a fire or smoke in your house. What do you do when you hear the alarm? You call the fire department and get out of the house, of course. It is the same thing in the body, w hen you have a head ache you have to remove the reason for the headache, which m any times is a misalignment of the bones of the neck from injury, poor posture, a traumatic birth, or even falls as a child!
Weather you have been involved in a car accident, or have had headaches your entire life, there is an answer. Pain is an indicator that there is a problem somewhere. The key is to find what the problem is and deal with it.We at Back in Action Chiropractic have found that when you re align the bones of the spine a huge majority of the time the headaches go away or are greatly reduced! If you would like to see if you are a candidate for these headache treatments you can schedule a consultation with our doctors today.
If you have been in a car accident and have headaches and would like to find more information about this type of treatments go to www.caraccidentseattlebellevue.com, as well as www.backinactionchiropractic.com
