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Ashburn Headache Relief with Exercise and Chiropractic

Headache. Does not the word make your head ache?!

Today’s busy world, its stress and fast pace, leaves many Ashburn folks struggling with headache. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn sees it every day. Many of our Ashburn chiropractic patients seek alleviation of their headache pain with Ashburn chiropractic care. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn blends chiropractic treatment with suggested exercise to many headache sufferers to cope with and find a break from headache pain.
 
Causes 

First, what triggers a chronic tension-type headache? Emotional and physical issues but not necessarily depression or anxiety proposes one article. (1) Ashburn friends and family can relate to the emotional and physical influences on headaches. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn will certainly make time to listen when a Ashburn chiropractic patient needs to vent about life and its many changes and challenges. Life play an influential role in how we all function in our Ashburn intertwined lives. Tension headaches are even seen in Ashburn young people. Tension headaches in girls aged 9 to 18 years unsettle the girl’s life and raise concerns for her family and healthcare givers. (2) All Ashburn headache sufferers desire one thing: help for headache pain relief.

Approaches to Relief 

Sadly, chronic daily headache sufferers – including many Ashburn headache sufferers – pursue help that results in not helping them. One study showed that many headache sufferers endure needless additional diagnostic exams and ineffective treatment that lead to their not understanding their condition. (3) And, interestingly, older women with cervicogenic headache have more fatty infiltration in their upper cervical spine muscles. (4) So might exercise assist in reducing these types of Ashburn headaches? Great question!

Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn sees the frustration of Ashburn headache sufferers who pursue but don’t get headache pain relief. Research shows that cognitive behavioral therapy helps some with chronic daily headache. (3) Mindfulness meditation is another way. Those who use this also use moderate exercise, have low back pain, neck pain and headache, and report being sad, nervous and/or frequently stressed. (5) Exercise offers more benefits. Combining gentle Ashburn chiropractic Cox Technic treatment to the cervical spine with neck exercises is often beneficial.

Simple Exercise 

Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn comforts our Ashburn headache patients that the exercises may be simple yet good. Cervico-scapulothoracic strengthening and endurance exercises including pressure biofeedback for chronic headache allowed small to moderate improvement of pain, function and overall help. (6) Strength training and counseling for these headaches assisted in reducting the headaches’ frequency and enhanced other factors like muscle balance and shoulder strength. (2) Strengthening exercises are favorable! Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn will show you some simple strengthening exercises to relieve headache pain.

Schedule an Appointment 

Schedule a Ashburn chiropractic headache relieving visit today, so that the word headache does not cause your head ache any more! 

 
 
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