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Most of us have or will experience a headache sometime in our life. Still a large group of the population experience frequent debilitating headaches which last hours to days. These headaches are often grouped as migraines but may actually be cerviogenic or sever tension headaches. Cerviogenic headaches are muskuloskeletal (dealing with the muscles, bones, and supporting soft tissues) in nature. They occur when a cervical vertebrae is subluxated and causes the nerves exiting the vertebrae to be pushed on and excited. Subluxated cervical vertebrae can also cause muscles to spasm in the base of the head and neck which slow or entrap blood flow which can cause headaches with very localized pain such as behind the eyes or just in the back of the head. Doctors of chiropractic treat the cause of these problems not just the symptoms having good success in reducing the frequency and duration of the condition.
The 1996 RAND Corp. study by Ian Coulter, The Appropriateness of Manipulation
and Mobilization of the Cervical Spine, found that spinal manipulation
had effects similiar to medications in relieving headaches, neck pain,
and tension type headaches. While, Boline P. as authored in 1995 in
the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics (vol 18, no
.3:148-154) in his article Spinal Manipulation vs. Amitriptyline for th
e Treatment of Chronic Tension-Type Headaches: A Randomized Clinical Tri
al found that though pain reduction was similiar to the drug chiropract
ic care offered decreased frequency and reduction in medication use whil
e increasing functional health while the drug group remained constant
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