{"id":992384,"date":"2024-08-02T07:24:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T07:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uppercervicaltreviso.it\/?p=992384"},"modified":"2024-09-06T13:43:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T13:43:00","slug":"chronic-migraine-structural-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uppercervicaltreviso.it\/en\/chronic-migraine-structural-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Chronic Daily Migraine Headaches \u2013 Finding a Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Migraine headaches are among the most debilitating and dreadful neurological problems that exist. They may not be fatal, but the effect on someone\u2019s quality of life can be dramatic. Imagine having days where the sight of light cripples you. Imagine having terrible nausea, and a constant pounding in your head so bad that you wish that someone would just cut the darn thing off your neck. Imagine that pain lasting for hours or even days at a time.\u00a0You probably already know that feeling, and you\u2019ve almost certainly been in the same room as someone going through a migraine attack. Fortunately, most people experience a migraine on rare occasion. However, there are those among us that experience these terrible\u00a0<\/span>headaches several times a month, and others even experience them on a DAILY basis.\u00a0<\/span>This is the typical life of a chronic migraine patient in my office. Many times these patients have seen several headache specialists. They\u2019ve seen the best neurologists that the Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic have to offer, and have been through every MRI and brain scan available. They\u2019ve tried several different medication regiments, altered their diets, and spend their lives in fear of triggers like meat, wine, and sometimes caffeine.\u00a0<\/span>Many have even tried alternative therapies like acupuncture and conventional chiropractic with no change.\u00a0<\/span>When they finally sit down and speak with me, they\u2019ve been suffering for years, and almost numb to the fact that they have constant pain in the head. Some look a little pale, others need the lights off in the office, and some even come in wearing sunglasses. All of them are a little doubtful and skeptical that their condition can be cured.<\/span><\/p>

Less Focus on Cure, More Focus on Cause <\/b><\/h3>

When most people walk into a doctor\u2019s office with an ailment, what they are most often searching for is a cure. Though migraines are terribly common, and have been around for centuries, a cure has been elusive for the millions of patients suffering on a daily basis. Over the counter migraine medications are usually a first line of treatment, followed by prescription medications like Imitrex and Treximet. There is also a focus on removing triggers from a person\u2019s life like chocolate, caffeine, and certain scents\/perfumes.\u00a0The truth is that headaches (especially migraines) cannot be treated as a simplistic disease that is the same in all people. Headaches are a dynamic entity with causes that are multifactorial. Instead of looking at a migraine as a disease entity, it should be seen as a symptom of a neurophysiological process gone haywire.<\/span><\/p>

The Trigeminocervical Complex: The Pain Gate Keeper <\/b>of the Head\/Neck <\/b><\/h3>

Don\u2019t get hung up on the terminology, the name is not important for the casual reader. It is important to understand that near the top part of your spinal cord. In the area surrounded by your top 3 neck vertebra is a very important bundle of nerve cells. These specific nerve cells filter incoming signals from the outer covering of the brain known as meninges. They also filter incoming signals from the blood vessels of the brain, as well as signals that come from the neck.<\/p>

You see, the brain does not have any receptors that trigger pain. It\u2019s kind of crazy to think about, but it\u2019s true. However, the outer protective covering of the brain, and the blood vessels are very pain sensitive. When the receptors from these structures get set off, then a cascade of events can take place leading to the blood vessels in the brain opening up and becoming inflamed.\u00a0It\u2019s important that we have \u2018filters\u2019 like the trigeminocervical complex around to make sure that not every pain signal gets to the brain. In that way, it acts like a gatekeeper. If it let every pain signal through, you would be in a state of pain without end.<\/span><\/p>

So what went wrong with the built-in gate keeper of pain to the brain? <\/b><\/h3>

The normal alignment and movement of the head and neck serve as a buffer to pain signals that go into the gate keeper. When you lose the normal alignment, several things can happen.\u00a0Blood flow in and out of the brain is compromised <\/span>Inflammatory molecules stay in the brain\u2019s blood supply longer Muscles and ligaments of the neck mis-fire <\/span>Low grade inflammation persists in the joints of the neck Small muscles in the neck may pull against the brain\u2019s outer covering\u00a0<\/span>When this happens, you have an environment where the trigeminocervical nucleus can get overloaded with pain signals without the buffer of signals\u00a0<\/span>from normal head and neck movement. All of a sudden, a seemingly harmless trigger can send someone with a tendency towards migraines can be sent in a downward spiral of a pounding headache.<\/span><\/p>

Correction not Cure <\/b><\/h3>

In our office our focus is on correcting the Structural positioning of the head and neck rather than curing migraine headaches. The truth is that Structural Correction has benefits that go beyond treating or curing a specific illness or disease. Correction of Atlas Displacement does one thing, and only one thing:\u00a0It mobilizes the self-healing, self-restoring potential within your own body.\u00a0<\/span>If we believe that our bodies were meant to be healthy, pain-free, and vibrant, then we must only find what is inhibiting the body\u2019s self-healing potential.\u00a0<\/span>The cure is already inside of you, and the best doctor in the world is the one that resides in between your 2 ears: a fully functional and healthy brain.\u00a0<\/span>Because maybe the illness was just all in your head after all.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Migraine headaches are among the most debilitating and dreadful neurological problems that exist. They may not be fatal, but the effect on someone\u2019s quality of life can be dramatic. Imagine having days where the sight of light cripples you. Imagine having terrible nausea, and a constant pounding in your head so bad that you wish…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":992385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t