Headache Treatment in Woodstock, GA

Comprehensive Consultation and Exam

In our office, we take the time to listen to why you’re here and then educate you on what true health is and how we can help you build yours.

We have a thorough consultation where we listen and ask questions to determine the root cause of your headaches. Then, we perform state-of-the-art NeuralChek exams to assess the state of your nervous system, which will allow us to accurately tailor a care plan, including the exact kind of adjustments you need.

Getting to the root cause of any problem is more important than addressing symptoms. Symptoms may or may not point to a particular problem, but by improving your overall health, your body can begin to heal itself, and many times, these symptoms resolve on their own.

Specific Chiropractic Care In Woodstock, GA

A subluxation is when a spinal bone interferes with the transmission of signals between the brain and the rest of the body. Subluxations dampen these signals, causing disease, anxiety, depression, and less than optimal functioning of glands, muscles, and organs. Any disease in these areas can cause headaches.

Due to chiropractic care, a properly functioning nervous system can have headaches disappear as the body begins to heal, adapt, and function optimally. Chiropractic isn’t a treatment for headaches but a method of improving your health by optimizing function, adaptability, and healing. No other healthcare profession does this, as most if not all, focus on treating the symptom versus the cause.

Zone Technique

The Zone Technique is a chiropractic method that aims to balance six systems or zones of the body by stimulating specific points on the spine. One of these zones is the nervous system, which affects many functions such as mood, sleep, digestion, and pain perception. Headaches can be caused by a disturbance in the nervous system zone, which can be corrected by applying pressure to specific spinal segments. This can help restore communication between the brain and the spinal cord and relieve headaches without using drugs or other invasive methods.

Migraine

A migraine is a headache disorder that causes intense pulsing pain deep within your head. Migraine episodes may last between 4 and 72 hours untreated, significantly limiting your ability to carry out your daily routine. During a migraine attack, you may experience throbbing pain, usually on one side of the head, light sensitivity, sound sensitivity, and nausea and vomiting.
About 1/3 of those with migraines experience visual disturbances before the headache phase starts.

Common migraine triggers include environmental factors, such as:

• Sleep disruption
• Dehydration
• Skipped meals
• Some foods
• Hormone fluctuations
• Exposure to chemicals

Cervicogenic Headache

Cervicogenic headache is a type of headache characterized by chronic hemicranial pain referred to the head from either the cervical spine or soft tissues within the neck. The main symptoms of cervicogenic headaches include pain originating in the neck that can travel to the head or face, headaches that get worse with neck movement, and limited ability to move the neck. Common causes include whiplash, arthritis in the neck, neck fractures, pinched nerves, slipped discs, and strained or sprained neck muscles.

Cluster Headache

Cluster headaches may occur with severe burning and piercing pain. They occur around or behind one eye or on one side of the face at a time. Symptoms may include:

• Swelling, Redness, Flushing, and sweating on the side that’s affected by the headache
• Nasal congestion and eye tearing on the same side as the headache

These headaches occur in a series. Each headache can last from 15 minutes to 3 hours. During a cluster, people may experience headaches anywhere from one every other day to one per day, usually around the same time each day. After one headache resolves, another will soon follow.

A series of cluster headaches can be daily for months at a time. In the months between clusters, people are symptom-free. Cluster headaches are more common in the spring and fall. They are also three times more common in men.
Doctors aren’t sure what causes cluster headaches. Balancing the brain and nervous system allows the body to heal itself and function optimally, which can help resolve the root cause of headaches.

Trigeminal Neuralgia

Trigeminal Neuralgia is a condition that causes intense pain similar to an electric shock on one side of the face. It affects the trigeminal nerve, which carries signals from the face to the brain. Even a light touch from brushing your teeth or putting on makeup may trigger a jolt of pain. Trigeminal neuralgia can be long-lasting. It’s known as a chronic pain condition.

Trigeminal neuralgia is the disruption of the trigeminal nerve’s function. Contact between a blood vessel and the trigeminal nerve at the base of the brain often causes pain. The blood vessel may be an artery or a vein. This contact puts pressure on the nerve and doesn’t allow it to function as usual.

While compression by a blood vessel is a common cause, there are many other potential causes. Multiple sclerosis or a similar condition that damages the myelin sheath protecting certain nerves can cause trigeminal neuralgia. A tumor pressing against the trigeminal nerve also can cause the condition.

Allergy or Sinus Headaches

Headaches sometimes happen as a result of an allergic reaction. The pain from these headaches focuses in your sinus area and the front of your head. In most cases, seasonal allergies cause these headaches.

Concussion Headache

Post-concussion headache, or post-traumatic headache, occurs following an injury to the head. Symptoms can include dull pain, fatigue, and dizziness. Balancing the brain and nervous system allows the body to heal itself and function optimally, which can help resolve the root cause of headaches.

Tension Headache

If you have a tension headache, you may feel a dull, aching sensation all over your head. Tenderness or sensitivity around your neck, forehead, scalp, or shoulder muscles also might occur. Stress is often a trigger of tension headaches, so anyone can get them.

Balancing the brain and nervous system allows the body to heal itself and function optimally, which can help resolve the root cause of headaches.

Pregnancy Headache

Pregnancy can cause multiple kinds of headaches, from tension to hormonal and even cluster headaches. The primary culprits are pregnancy hormones, though there are many other causes of headaches during every stage of pregnancy. This type of pain can have lots of triggers, which means it can come on at any time.

Whiplash Headache

Whiplash is a neck injury due to forceful, rapid back-and-forth movement of the neck, like the cracking of a whip. The sudden and extreme back-and-forth whiplash motion can injure the cervical facet joints, causing inflammation and irritation of the nerves in the brain stem and spinal cord.

Whiplash is commonly caused by rear-end car accidents. But whiplash can also result from sports accidents, physical abuse, and other types of traumas, such as a fall. Whiplash may be called a neck sprain or strain, but these terms also include other types of neck injuries.

Nearly two-thirds of cervical spine injury patients experience headaches. About half of those who develop it after a whiplash injury feel the pain in the back of their head, a further third get symptoms all over the head, and a smaller number feel the whiplash-related discomfort at their forehead or behind their eyes.

Whiplash headaches often first show themselves the morning after the accident. The pain sweeps up from the neck and over the back of the head. Most sufferers find that heat on the back of the neck will ease the headache. Cold makes it worse. Neck movements often aggravate the problem – particularly extension: looking up to the ceiling is often very painful.

Patients with whiplash-related head pains often also get shoulder pain, and touching the big trapezius muscles over the back of the neck and shoulders often provokes pain or the spread of symptoms upwards. There are often tender spots or trigger points in these muscles.
Women get pains in the head after whiplash injury more often than men – the reason for this is unclear but might relate to the smaller structures of the female neck anatomy.

Nearly 80 percent of people who experience whiplash develop a chronic headache, also known as cervicogenic or neck-related headache.