Headaches

Headaches


Headaches are a very common occurrence that will at some point affect us all too some degree. New research has found that especially migraines are on the rise. It is a very common condition that patients present with.

There has been extensive research into the effectiveness of chiropractic treatment of headaches. A new review is just about to be released in the next Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics (JMPT). It supports in its research the chiropractic adjustment being used in the management of migraine and cervicogenic headaches with another chiropractic technique called Mobilization being effective in the treatment of tension-type and cervicogenic headaches.

A new study into long term tension type headaches compared conventional medical treatment to chiropractic treatment and concluded that;

“Manual therapy is more effective than usual GP care in the short- and longer term in reducing symptoms of CTTH.”



Patrick Ryder
Masters in Chiropractic