Headaches are more common than people think. Not only do they make your life miserable in many instances, they also negatively affect your family and your friends who care about you. That's why this new information may be very important to you.
New research has revealed the cause of certain head pains and also how to get rid of the pain associated with them. A new research study published in the November-December 2010 issue of the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics (JMPT) shows "a relationship between cervical movement impairment and the presence and severity of cervicogenic head pain". Basically, they found that subjects with head pains originating from the neck also had decreased motion in the neck. And, the more the neck motion was decreased, the worse the head pain can become. This is a head pain caused by a problem in your neck. This is important because the study evaluated 92 subjects by putting them through a simple neck motion test. They found that range of motion (how much your neck moves) was significantly reduced in the presence of a head pain.
This is very important to you because if you suffer with headaches, there may be a simple solution. Dr. Ryan Robinson is an expert at assessing the range of motion of your neck, and if there is a problem, treatments are specifically designed to attempt to normalize that range of motion. Proper treatment of the neck, particularly by properly trained chiropractors addresses the motion of your spine. In other words, if you have a cervicogenic headache that is caused by dysfunction and decreased range of motion in your neck, chiropractic care may be able to help you.
The first thing that you need to figure out is if your headache is of the cervicogenic kind. The best way to know is to schedule an appointment and have a cervicogenic headache evaluation.
A classic symptom of cervicogenic headache is pain that originates at the base of your head in the back and travels up your head possibly to the front and even to the eyes. This same type of pain may also start at the base of your neck and/or upper shoulders and travel into the head. But, headache diagnosis can be sneaky and some causes are very serious. That's why they should be evaluated by a trained healthcare provider. With proper diagnosis and the correct treatment, your headaches may be a thing of the past.
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Dr. Ryan Robinson, D.C.
Advanced Health and Chiropractic