Brought to you by Ventura Chiropractor - Dr. Syd Dhillon

A common underlying cause of many of these different headaches is impingement of the nerves of the upper region of the neck. Aspirin or Tylenol may cover up the headache, but they do not correct the underlying structural cause.

THE SPINE AND HEADACHES:
Researchers have often noted the relationship between the spine and many types of headaches. For example, one study of 6,000 long-term (2-25 years) headache sufferers revealed that neck injury (whiplash, falls) was the most important factor in the cause of the headach and should be suspected in every nonspecific case of headache.

Clinical Trial Shows Chiropractic Helps Migraines:>
A clinical trial reported in Medical-News.net on May 22,2005 showed that 72% of migraine sufferers experienced either substantial or noticeable improvement after a period of chiropractic care. The study was a randomized clinical trial over a 20 year period. Dr. Peter Tuchin, was the chief researcher and presented his results in a thesis at Macquarie University in Australia.

The study involved 123 migraine suffers, which was reduced down from approzimately 1000 who applied to be part of the study after responding to a TV program about the research. The 123 participants were further divided into 2 groups. One group received chiropractic care while the other group was a control group who did not receive any actual care but were told they were receiving a from of electrical physical therapy.

The results, around 22% of patients had substantial reduction - which means that more than 60% of their symptoms reduced during the course of the treatment. What makes this a really strong result is this was a really chronic group - the average length of time they’d had migraines was 18 years. T o get a change of that sort of magnitude in a really chronic group was quite amazing.

Chiropractic is not the be all and end all, but for a good percentage of migraine sufferers the neck is a significant contributing factor and for them chiropractic treatment is really effective.