West Des Moines Chiropractic Care to Help Relieve Migraine Pain
Migraine sufferers don’t suffer by themselves. Around 15% of US adults experience migraine. More often, women more so than men are bothered by migraine. Women are more likely to suffer migraine three times more 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 delighted to contribute to the migraine relief effort with its gentle West Des Moines chiropractic care.
TREATMENTS FOR MIGRAINE: MEDS & CHIROPRACTIC & MORE
How do migraine sufferers deal with their migraine? They resort to medications. Meds are first line treatment options while around 50% of migraine sufferers are recently using complementary and integrative medicine. One research team has set up a research project studying the chiropractic care of migraine as migraine and musculoskeletal tension and pain often go together. They called their study the “Integrative Migraine Pain Alleviation through Chiropractic Therapy (IMPACT).” (1) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa anticipates their findings as they plan to assess 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 usual. To determine if an intervention is “clinically meaningful,” researchers look for a 50% reduction in headaches. A group of researchers who reviewed a large number of published studies proposed that associated symptoms and fear of attacks would also be good outcome measures in addition to the 50% reduction in migraines. They also stated that the level of effectiveness for non-pharmacological interventions – especially used with medication – should be lower if beneficial. (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 play a role in migraine, chiropractic may play a role in its relief. Researchers collected details from several randomized control trials of spinal manipulation for migraine relief. Treatment with spinal manipulation ranged from 2 to 6 months. Preliminarily, spinal manipulation was written to be an effective therapeutic treatment to reduce migraine days and migraine intensity and pain. (3) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa uses very gentle spinal manipulation from the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management to reduce pain and alleviate 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 details treatment of migraine and related neck pain with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Manipulation for a patient who benefitted from his chiropractic care.
Schedule a West Des Moines chiropractic visit with Executive Chiropractic of Iowa for adjunctive relief and care of migraine pain. West Des Moines migraine sufferers do not have to suffer alone, don’t have to deal with with migraine alone. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa offers spinal manipulation and West Des Moines chiropractic services for some relief.
