Plainville Migraine Sufferers May Find Exercise and Chiropractic Help
Migraine is a draining condition for its sufferers. It’s costly in terms of pain, money, and pharmacological use need. Drugs remain the “gold standard” of care. Patients often ask their migraine healthcare providers for non-pharamacological alternatives. Plainville migraine sufferers want choices! Layden Chiropractic puts forward that exercise may be one such positive option.
EXERCISE FOR CHRONIC PAIN
Migraine is, for most Plainville migraine sufferers, a chronic pain condition. It is not usually a one time situation. Chronic pain affects the nervous system and the specific pain-generator. Researchers described evidence that exercise helps a variety of chronic pain conditions including migraine directly and indirectly with an aim to change the cycle of pain, sedentariness, and worsening disability. These changes do not come overnight. They come with long-term, regular, individualized exercise giving rise to improvement in pain and function. (1) Layden Chiropractic reminds our Plainville chiropractic patients with all types of conditions that it’s slow and steady commitment that results in desired outcomes.
EXERCISE FOR MIGRAINE BEING STUDIED
Researchers and migraine sufferers alike hold out hope for a simple, low-cost approach to migraine care. For example, a recent comparison study of neck-specific exercise versus sham ultrasound to decrease the frequency and intensity of migraine attacks. (2) A new meta-analysis in Headache reported that aerobic exercise for migraine patients decreased the number of migraine days. (3) These are beneficial outcomes for Plainville migraine treatment.
EXERCISE BENEFITS: Overall and Migraine Specific
Plainville chiropractic patients are often encouraged to exercise. Exercise seems like 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 influences the microvascular system that possibly 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 produces this type of effect? “Sufficiently rigorous aerobic exercise” brought about statistically significant decrease in migraine frequency, intensity and duration. That is welcomed by Plainville migraine sufferers! Of course, higher intensity exercise seems to allow more benefit. Pharmacological drugs like topiramate were reported to be better than exercise, but including exercise into its use was suggested to provide benefit. 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) Layden Chiropractic agrees with the researchers’ bottom-line: 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 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.
