Imagine this: You have been on a productive roll at work. You are looking forward to some evening plans. But, oh no, a headache has arrived! Tension headaches can hinder your ability to enjoy your day and get work done, but hope is not lost. Relieve your tension headaches with chiropractic care.
Chiropractic care for tension headaches
For a variety of reasons, chiropractic care is effective at treating tension headaches. Although no one knows exactly what causes these headaches, triggers can include muscle tightness in the neck, for example.
Symptoms of tension headaches are mild to moderate pain and tightness or pressure across your forehead or sides of your head.
By working to realign your spine and alleviate tightness in your neck muscles, chiropractic care helps relieve and reduce the pain from tension headaches. This can also help lessen the frequency and severity of your headaches.
Causes and treatments
Tension headaches can be caused by many things, including stress, anxiety, eye strain, head injuries, poor posture and more.
By choosing to relieve your tension headaches with chiropractic care, your chiropractor will first look at the pattern of headaches and, with a physical examination, be able to see what muscle is related to the pain. This could include the trapezius muscles in the shoulder, neck and even the jaw.
Treatment for tension headache alleviation includes education on the cause, specifically if it is their posture, their habits or instinctive clenching, and targeting the specific muscles with stretching to reduce those stressors.
Common techniques are postural and ergonomic corrections, passive and active stretching and exercise, spinal alignments and trigger point treatments with a soft tissue mobilization tool, for instance.
Summary
If you want to begin to relieve your tension headaches with chiropractic care, schedule your next appointment with us. Together, we will begin working toward a healthier you! In the meantime, continue reading our blogs for more wellness tips and additional industry news.