Nine out of ten Americans suffer from headaches. If you get headaches, what do you do when the pain begins? Grit your teeth and carry on? Swallow a pill and hope the pain goes away?

Headaches have many causes. About five percent of headaches are warning signals caused by health problems, the other ninety–five percent of headaches are tension, migraine or cluster headaches. Most primary headaches are associated with muscle tension in the scalp or neck. Because of the decrease many people experience in regular exercise and the increase in sedentary activity which comes with an increasing computer use and on TV oriented world, more people than ever are experiencing headache problems.

Management strategies for headache and neck disorders are similar to those for other chronic illnesses. The professional job is to determine possible causes of job-related headache and do all effort to treat them. Once the headache develops, the majority of the symptoms are mediated by central nervous system mechanisms.

There is a familial tendency to develop headaches and that exposure to physical, emotional, or environmental stressors might trigger the initiation of symptoms. Constant presence of chronic headaches is associated with a loss of gray matter in the brain, similar to that seen in aging process.

The sole or multiple problems of these patients were: an unhealthy cervical spine with a protruded or ruptured disc, which can irritate the nerve; degenerative disc disease; osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis of the spine joints; whiplash syndrome, usually as a result of traffic accidents; neck sprains and strains; sports injuries.

For headache suffered individuals, and many others, the practice provides multimodalities programs - that integrate chiropractic manipulative treatment and non pharmacologic supportive therapy.

Without toxic side effects of medication, chiropractic treatments for headaches are working very well. 

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