Say Goodbye to Migraines with Health Wise Chiropractic
What is a Migraine?
More likely in my female patients, usually there is pain on one side of the head and is more like a throbbing headache.
Before the headache, there is usually a blind spot (scotoma) surrounded by flashing lights (scintillation). Patients unfortunately usually have this for around half an hour and then a headache occurs that can last for several days.
You may find relief in a dark, quiet environment and there can be some nausea with vomiting during the migraine episode.
What is the cause?
This unfortunately is not a simple answer as the most common belief of being vascular in origin, only accounts for around 1 in 10 of patients.
Other causes are:
- Vascular inflammation that irritates nerves ( meningeal nerve fibres)
- lowering of the pain threshold occurs which means normal stimuli may cause pain.
- Cortisol depression occurs which leads to decreased cerebral blood flow that can last for several hours
- Upper spinal nerves have a misinterpretation of the pain due to a trigeminal afferent input. This is what can lead to the headache.
How Health Wise Chiropractic Can Help
We have multiple treatment offers at our office. Chiropractic Adjustments, Dry needling, and massage all have research supporting the benefits.
Nutritional support can include Calcium, Vitamin D, Omega 3 fatty acids as well as magnesium before menses may prevent some women's menstrual migraines.
You may also want to talk to your GP about some medications that can help.
We have been helping our community for over 10+ years with their muscle and spinal problems. Please call Health Wise Chiropractic at 03 9467 7889 or book online to see if one of our Chiropractors in Sunbury or Melton/Strathtulloh could do the same for you!
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Chiropractic has moved online. We offer our online programs -STAND CORRECTED- To help you through the day. They contain health advice for your conditions, nutritional advice, and exercises for you to do at home or at the workplace to help you achieve your health goals. We understand that coming to the Chiropractic clinic may be costly and time-consuming. This way if you can't make it into the chiropractic office, you can do any of our 20+ online health programs at your leisure.
Enjoy and we hope they spark a little bit of joy and help you achieve your health goals. Each program contains - Information about the conditions - things to do and things to avoid - nutrition advice - all the stretches that are needed to help The following conditions are now available for online sessions
migraine
cervicogenic headaches
cervical facet neck pain
tension headaches
cervical radiculopathy (pins and needles in the arm originating from the neck)
shoulder impingement relief
thoracic outlet syndrome
frozen shoulder
rotator cuff
chronic lumbar (Low Back) disc pain
acute Lumbar(low back) disc pain
Lumbar facet pain
sciatica and piriformis syndrome
meniscus (knee pain)
Plantar fasciitis (Foot Pain)
Shin Splints
Tennis Elbow/Golfers elbow
Carpal tunnel Syndrome
Upper Crossed Syndrome( Poor Posture)
Lower Crossed Syndrome ( Poor Posture)
Dizziness-Vertigo
Arthritis
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TMJ (Jaw Pain)
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