Fernandina Beach Migraine Sufferers May Find Exercise and Chiropractic Help
Migraine is a debilitating condition for its sufferers. It is expensive in terms of pain, money, and pharmacological use necessity. Drugs remain the “gold standard” of care. Patients often request choices from their migraine healthcare providers for non-drug alternatives. Fernandina Beach migraine sufferers want alternative ideas! Amelia Chiropractic Clinic puts forward that exercise may be one such positive alternative.
EXERCISE FOR CHRONIC PAIN
Migraine is, for most Fernandina Beach migraine sufferers, a chronic pain condition. It is not usually a one and done situation. Chronic pain disrupts the nervous system as well as the specific pain-generating issue. Researchers described evidence that exercise helps a variety of chronic pain conditions including migraine directly and indirectly with a goal of changing the cycle of pain, sedentariness, and worsening disability. These changes do not emerge overnight. They come with long-term, consistent, individualized exercise bringing about improvement in pain and function. (1) Amelia Chiropractic Clinic tells our Fernandina Beach chiropractic patients with all sorts of conditions that it’s slow and steady commitment that gets the result.
EXERCISE FOR MIGRAINE BEING STUDIED
Researchers and migraine sufferers alike hold out hope for a simple, low-cost approach to migraine care. Case in point, a recent comparison study of neck-specific exercise set against sham ultrasound to reduce the frequency and intensity of migraine attacks. (2) A new meta-analysis in Headache explained that aerobic exercise for migraine patients decreased the number of migraine days. (3) These are beneficial outcomes for Fernandina Beach migraine treatment.
EXERCISE BENEFITS: Overall and Migraine Specific
Fernandina Beach chiropractic patients are often urged to exercise. Exercise appears to be a endorsed panacea for everything from back pain to migraine to depression to neck pain and so much more. Why? It works. Exercise suppresses inflammation via reduction of inflammatory modulators (many cytokines) and stress hormones (growth hormone and cortisol). Exercise constructively impacts the microvascular system that certainly affects a certain type of cortical spreading depression. Migraine specifically, exercise helped migraine self-efficacy by permitting the migraine sufferer to have a sense of control which lessened migraine burden. How much exercise does this? “Sufficiently rigorous aerobic exercise” resulted in statistically significant drop in migraine frequency, intensity and duration. That’s appreciated by Fernandina Beach migraine sufferers! Naturally, higher intensity exercise seems to bring about more benefit. Pharmacological drugs like topiramate were reported to be better than exercise, but including exercise into its use was implied as being beneficial. Migraine sufferers who also experience neck pain or tension headache are reported as benefiting from exercise. Low impact is worthwhile if high impact exercise is not doable. (4) Amelia Chiropractic Clinic concurs with the researchers’ outcome: exercise is a reasonable evidence-based recommendation for migraine prevention.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. David Kulla on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares how he followed The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his patient with migraine which incorporated Cox® Technic spinal manipulation as well as exercise for welcomed relief by his patient.
