West Des Moines Chiropractic Care to Help Relieve Migraine Pain

Migraine sufferers are not alone. About 15% of US adults suffer with migraine. More often, women more so than men are bothered by migraine. Women are more likely to suffer migraine three times as often as men do. (1) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa is not alone in the desire to help migraine sufferers find relief. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa is happy to contribute to the migraine relief effort with its gentle West Des Moines chiropractic care.

TREATMENTS FOR MIGRAINE: MEDS & CHIROPRACTIC & MORE

What do migraine sufferers do about their migraine? They resort to medications. Meds are first line treatment options, yet around 50% of migraine sufferers are now using complementary and integrative medicine. One research team has set up a study of the chiropractic care of migraine since migraine and musculoskeletal tension and pain often occur together. They named their study the “Integrative Migraine Pain Alleviation through Chiropractic Therapy (IMPACT).” (1) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa anticipates their findings as they intend to evaluate multimodal chiropractic care plus usual care and usual care alone for adult women with episodic migraine.

MIGRAINE TREATMENT OUTCOMES

Non-pharmacological interventions for migraine are customary. To ascertain if an intervention is “clinically meaningful,” researchers look for a 50% reduction in headaches. A group of researchers who looked at a large number of published studies proposed that associated symptoms and fear of attacks would also be appropriate outcome measures along with the 50% reduction in migraines. They also stated that the level of effectiveness for non-pharmacological interventions – particularly used with medication – should be lower if helpful. (2) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa is pleased to be a part of our West Des Moines migraine sufferers’ healthcare team for migraine relief. The 50% Rule has governed the outcomes of Cox Technic. 

CHIROPRACTIC APPROACH TO MIGRAINE

Chiropractic is known for its approach to musculoskeletal pain and its relief. Since research suggested that musculoskeletal tension may have a role in migraine, chiropractic may play a role in its relief. Researchers amassed details from lots of randomized control trials of spinal manipulation for migraine relief. Treatment with spinal manipulation ranged from 2 to 6 months. Preliminarily, spinal manipulation was found to be an effective therapeutic treatment to decrease migraine days and migraine intensity and pain. (3) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa performs extremely gentle spinal manipulation from the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management to reduce pain and ease any migraine-related musculoskeletal pain issues.

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Jeremy Heidt on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes treatment of migraine and related neck pain with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Manipulation for a patient who was helped by his chiropractic care.

Schedule a West Des Moines chiropractic appointment with Executive Chiropractic of Iowa for additional relief and care of migraine pain. West Des Moines migraine sufferers do not have to suffer alone, do not have to deal with with migraine alone. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa offers spinal manipulation and West Des Moines chiropractic services for some relief.

 
Executive Chiropractic of Iowa offers gentle chiropractic treatment to migraine sufferers with related musculoskeletal tension wanting relief. 
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