Headaches & Migraines

What is Headaches & Migraines Care?

Headaches and migraines are among the top reasons people begin their search for a chiropractor. On average, 45 million Americans suffer from headaches each year, and those that experience regular migraines are reported to miss an average of 19 days of work.

The symptoms of headaches and migraines differ. Headaches are usually milder, with pain localized behind the eyes and sinuses, or around the temples. These forms of headaches are usually described as “Sinus Headaches” or “Tension Headaches”. Sinus headaches will often be related to colds, allergies, or sinus infections. Tension headaches are usually triggered by stress, a need for contacts or glasses, poor nutrition, or physical causes; even a ponytail holder wrapped too tightly can result in a tension headache.

Migraines tend to be far more severe because they include many more symptoms and affect more areas of the body. Migraines result in tremendous generalized pain around the head as well as nausea, depression, vomiting, and intense sensitivity to light and sound and even smells. About 25% of those with regular migraines will experience a migraine four times per month. Oftentimes, these migraines can be so severe, it sends its victim to the emergency room for relief!

While their symptoms are different, the cause(s) behind headaches and migraines are very similar, and usually overlooked if medication is the only form of treatment being used. Chiropractors will address more than the symptoms of headaches and migraines—they will look for the reasons that headaches and migraines are occurring. A previous injury (concussion, whiplash, etc.), poor posture (while walking, standing, sleeping, sitting, etc.), poor nutrition, and even having a difficult birth can leave behind damage to the spine, resulting in misalignments or subluxations. These subluxations interfere with the body’s natural ability to heal by itself. If there are subluxations in the cervical spine (neck), no amount of medication will be able to correct it!

Dr. Ranae Beard is a Fort Collins chiropractor trained to remove the subluxations that cause headaches and migraines. By keeping the spine healthy and safe, headaches, migraines, and their related symptoms no longer have the same causes feeding them, and with consistency, will disappear. So long, stubborn headache! Call (970) 530-0981, or schedule an appointment online.

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Chiropractor in Fort Collins, CO

A chiropractic adjustment can make you feel so much better. Your body does not want to be out of alignment, and that’s exactly what an adjustment can help address. It is also known as chiropractic manipulation, manual manipulation, or spinal manipulation. The adjustment refers to the manipulation of the vertebrae that have abnormal movements and are not functioning properly. A chiropractic adjustment will assist in fixing these issues.

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Cold Laser Therapy

Laser therapy is a treatment that utilizes specific wavelengths of light to interact with tissue and help accelerate your healing process. Laser treatment can be used on people suffering from acute and chronic conditions in order to eliminate pain and swelling, increase functionality, and reduce spasms.

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Corrective Exercises

Corrective exercises are the use of bodily movements and/or postures to restore desirable changes in diseased or injured tissues. The corrective exercises are movement strategies that minimize or eliminate compensation. Corrective exercises should precede more integrated exercises, because they can cue the patient’s motor system to respond in a more desirable way and assist in removing or improving biomechanical constraints.

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Lifestyle Advice

Our team here at Access To Health is dedicated to helping you achieve your long-term health and wellness goals by offering you reliable lifestyle advice. If you are not sure if the lifestyle choices you are making are worsening or improving your condition, we are here to help. We address the typical chiropractic issues as well as coach our patients to live a healthier life by looking at the individual as a whole mentally, physically and emotionally.

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Massage Therapy

Massage therapy is the manual manipulation of soft body tissues (muscle, connective tissue, tendons and ligaments) to enhance a person’s health and well-being. There are many types of massage therapy methods (also called modalities). People seek massage therapy for a variety of reasons; for example, to reduce stress and anxiety, to relax muscles, to rehabilitate injuries, to reduce pain and to promote overall health and wellness.

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