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Surviving a Migraine: Coping with the Physical Toll on Your Body

Updated: Jun 21

Surviving a Migraine: Coping with the Physical Toll on Your Body


What is a migraine?


The physical impacts of migraines on your life.
The physical impacts of migraines on your life.

Migraine headache is a PRIMARY HEADACHE, that has reversible symptoms


Migraine Headaches are one of the world's most debilitating headaches and currently rank 7th among the 10 LEADING CAUSES of years lived with DISABILITY worldwide


Who is likely to get Migraines?


There is 3 times the chance the migraine will be in females and people aged 25-55


Migraines are likely to last from 4 hours up to 72 hours. The average attack lasts 24 hours


Migraines with AURA present with reversible visual and sensory changes and are usually followed by headaches. The AURA may last from 5 minutes to 60 minutes


What are the physical things a Chiropractor looks for, and how do we treat your migraines?


Migraines present with NECK PAIN and pain in the back of the neck and the TRAPEZIUS muscle


Physical symptoms that may be present are

Nausea

Dizziness

Disrupted sleep patterns

loss of appetite

tingling

sleepiness

ringing in the ears

reduced concentration


Often after a migraine, patients feel lethargic and feel groggy.


What can trigger a migraine?


Stress

Misalinged Spine

Tight Muscles

Hormonal changes (menstruation)

Oral contraceptive use


When we look at a persons body, we usually see the following in migraine patients

Poor Posture

Forward Head Posture

Poor ergonomics

Physically demanding work

Bruxism, Jaw Problems

Sitting for longer than 6 hours a day


Migraines are often aggravated by physical activity like walking and climbing stairs.


How diets can trigger a migraine

Cheese

Chocolate

Pungent food

Caffeine

Dehydration

Inconsistent eating habits


How Health Wise Chiropractic Helps


Chiropractic treatment reduces migrane frequency, reduces migraine duration, reduces migraine intensity and Chiropractic can reduce medication use and frequency.



Here's a special treat! One of our many videos about stretching from our STAND CORRECTED online pain management programs, we hope it helps. ENJOY!





If you want more information about how we can help . Please call Health Wise Chiropractic 03 9467 7889 or book online to see one of our Chiropractors in Sunbury or Melton/Strathtulloh Today!




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 maybe costly and time consuming. This way if you cant 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

  • Welcome To Chiropractic

  • TMJ (Jaw Pain)



Reference

Health SA. 2023; 28: 2283. Published online 2023 Oct 25. doi: 10.4102/hsag.v28i0.2283 PMCID: PMC10623481 PMID: 37927942

The physical impact of migraines on female chiropractic patients: A qualitative study




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