Murfreesboro Migraine Sufferers May Find Exercise and Chiropractic Help
Migraine is a frustrating condition for its sufferers. It’s costly in terms of pain, money, and pharmacological use need. Drugs are still the “gold standard” of care. Patients often request choices from their migraine healthcare providers for non-pharamacological alternatives. Murfreesboro migraine sufferers want choices! Most Chiropractic Clinic suggests that exercise may be one such useful option.
EXERCISE FOR CHRONIC PAIN
Migraine is, for most Murfreesboro migraine sufferers, a chronic pain condition. It is not usually a one time condition. Chronic pain disturbs the nervous system as well as the specific pain-generator. 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 declining disability. These changes don’t emerge overnight. They come with long-term, regular, individualized exercise resulting in improvement in pain and function. (1) Most Chiropractic Clinic tells our Murfreesboro 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 an easy, inexpensive approach to migraine care. For example, a new comparison study of neck-specific exercise set against sham ultrasound to decrease the frequency and intensity of migraine attacks. (2) A new meta-analysis in Headache stated that aerobic exercise for migraine patients dropped the number of migraine days. (3) These are valuable outcomes for Murfreesboro migraine treatment.
EXERCISE BENEFITS: Overall and Migraine Specific
Murfreesboro chiropractic patients are manytimes encouraged to exercise. Exercise seems like a recommended 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 possibly affects a certain type of cortical spreading depression. Migraine specifically, exercise helped migraine self-efficacy by allowing the migraine sufferer to have a sense of control which lessened migraine burden. How much exercise produces this type of effect? “Sufficiently rigorous aerobic exercise” brought about statistically significant reduction in migraine frequency, intensity and duration. That’s welcomed by Murfreesboro migraine sufferers! Of course, higher intensity exercise seems to bring about more benefit. Pharmacological drugs like topiramate were reported to be superior to exercise, but adding exercise to its use was implied as being beneficial. Migraine sufferers who also have neck pain or tension headache are reported as benefiting from exercise. Low impact is valuable if high impact exercise is not doable. (4) Most Chiropractic Clinic concurs with the researchers’ outcome: exercise is a practical 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 describes how he followed The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his patient with migraine which included Cox® Technic spinal manipulation as well as exercise for appreciated relief by his patient.
