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Not A Headache Therapy
For over a hundred years headache and
migraine sufferers have turned to
chiropractic for help. Chiropractic’s role
is to care for the person who has any
condition by ensuring that their entire body
will function better by correcting their VSC.
Anyone
suffering from headaches (and any other
condition) should make sure their spine is
free from the vertebral subluxation
complex—for the health of their whole body,
not just certain parts. |
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What
Puts the Ache in Headache?
The ace in headache does not come from
your brain—your brain cannot feel pain.
During brain surgery a patient is often
wide awake feeling nothing, even talking
to the surgeons and nurses while his/her
brain is being operated on (a local
anesthetic numbs the scalp). So what
puts the “ache” in headache> It’s the
non-brain structures: blood vessels,
membranes and cranial nerves in the
brain and skull. When these structures
are stretched, compressed, irritated,
inflamed or infected headaches often
result.
The Chiropractic
Approach
Why do millions of headache sufferers
turn to the natural, drug-free
chiropractic approach to health?
That’s because chiropractic has a unique
healing approach—chiropractors are the
only health professionals trained to
analyze your body for a serious and
often ignored condition that can damage
your nerves, inflame your tissues, cause
muscles to tighten and knot, weaken your
body, cause fatigue and set the stage
for sickness and disease. This condition
is called the vertebral subluxation
complex (VSC). |
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Just as you may
have a cavity in your teeth and
be unaware of the damage it’s
causing, so the VSC (or
subluxation) may be causing
serious harm to your
body—sometimes for years—without
your knowledge. What exactly is
VSC? It is a tiny distortion or
misalignment in your spine that
stresses your nervous system,
the system that controls your
body. What causes the VSC? Any
physical or emotional stress
that your body cannot withstand
can cause your spine to develop
a VSC. |
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The
Chiropractic Checkup
Using his/her hands, X-ray and other
instruments, your chiropractor will
determine if you have VSC. If you do,
your chiropractor will give you a safe,
gentle spinal adjustment to correct the
vertebral subluxation complex, removing
the nerve pressure and spinal
distortions.
Why Does Chiropractic
Work So Well?
Why has chiropractic been a blessing to
millions of headache sufferers? The
reason may be that most headache
sufferers appear to have a VSC. For
example, one study of 6,000 long-term
headache sufferers (two to 25 years)
revealed that neck injury (whiplash,
falls) was the most important factor in
the cause of the headache and should be
suspected in every nonspecific case of
headache.
And subluxation correction has powerful
effect. In a randomized controlled trial
performed at the University of Odense,
Denmark, those under chiropractic care
decreased their use of painkillers by
36% and the number of headache hours per
day decreased by 69%.
Headaches affect children too. For
example, a 10-year-old girl with
chronic, severe migraine (6 times a week
for the past 3 years) was unable to go
to school due to the severity of her
condition. Neurologists could not help
her. A chiropractic examination revealed
a VSC in her upper neck.. After her
third adjustment she was off her pain
medications and by the third week she
was back in school, started dance
classes for the first time in 2 years
“and actually began to smile again. She
was leading a normal and healthy life
for a child her age by the end of the 5th
visit.
A 13-year-old boy who was hurt in a
football game was in terrible pain and
had to wear dark glasses and ear plugs
to compensate for increased sensitivity
to sound and light. Medical doctors had
given the child painkillers and had him
hospitalized in traction for two weeks
with no improvement. After his first
chiropractic adjustment he could ride
home without wearing his sunglasses and
for the first time in two weeks
expressed an interest in food.
In another study patients who received
only chiropractic care showed
significant improvement, on a par with
those given a powerful prescription drug
(though without the side effects.) The
headache index, from a diary kept by
each patient, showed chiropractic to
have reduced the severity and frequency
of headaches as well or better than the
combined therapy or the drug alone (with
none of the side effects).
These studies and clinical reports are
just an example of the many cases of
headache that respond well to
chiropractic and spinal care.
How Does Chiropractic
Affect Headaches?
For many years it has been said that the
DC after a Doctor of Chiropractic’s name
also stand for “Doctor of
Cause”—chiropractors correct the cause
of a patient’s health problems, rather
than give painkillers and other drugs
which only treat the symptoms.
A team of surgeons may have found one of
the answers as to why chiropractic works
so well. They discovered a small neck
muscle that connects to the brain
membranes. When the neck is out of
alignment, this muscle can actually pull
on the brain! As the lead surgeon
writes: “An increasing body of
literature relates headaches to
pathology affecting the cervical spine
and a number of clinical trials have
demonstrated that chiropractic…is
valuable for managing headache. |
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Dr. Woodrow
W. Gwinn, Jr. Owner and Director of
Clinics |
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Telephone
in Maryville 865-977-0916
in Madisonville 423-442-4153 |
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