About Symptoms

Headaches

Scientists have identified over 300 causes for headaches. Various pain-sensitive structures and tissues including the skin, subcutaneous tissue, muscles, arteries, periosteal bone covering, and the upper cervical and facial nerves produce headaches when irritated or injured. Fortunately, only a handful of causes are responsible for the majority of headaches.

The most common of these headaches include:

i. Cervicogenic- problems within the neck
ii. Muscle-tension- neck and upper back muscular spasms
iii. Post-traumatic- following head/neck trauma, i.e. whiplash
iv. Drug-induced- from analgesic overuse
v. Migraines
vi. Cluster

Doctors of chiropractic successfully help thousands of individuals everyday obtain safe, effective, long-term relief from their headaches. This is because most headaches have a spinal, muscular, or habitual component which the chiropractor has been trained to identify and treat. In fact, surveys show that 10-25% of patients initiate chiropractic care for the relief of headaches.