Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC Offers Chiropractic Care for Headache Relief
La Grande headache. It is a condition from which many people suffer. Cervicogenic and tension-type headaches are a couple of the more often talked about ones. The cervicogenic headache is related to issues with the cervical disc, facets, and joints. The tension-type headache is linked to the muscles of the neck caused by stress or odd head positioning. Both headache types tend to respond to gentle, safe stretching type treatment like Cox® Technic used at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC.
SOURCE OF TENSION-TYPE HEADACHE: Neck Muscle, Stress, Position
Tension type headache is noted as the second most common health concern around the globe. A new review of published studies for its care found that manual joint mobilization techniques, supervised physical therapy, acupuncture, psychological care, and patient education were as beneficial for reducing headache frequency, improving quality of life, lessening pain intensity, and diminishing stress symptoms. (1) Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC welcomes La Grande tension-headache sufferers as well as their fellow cervicogenic headache sufferers.
SOURCE OF HEADACHE: Cervical Joint
La Grande chiropractic patients want to know why they have a headache. A current study described how researchers utilized diagnostic block testing to pinpoint the cervical spine joint source of the headache. Overall, the C2-3 level was the most frequent source. In patients whose chief complaint was headache over neck pain, the C2-3 was the source for 62%, C1-2 for 7%, and C3-4 for 6%. For patients whose neck pain was worse than the headache, C2-3 was the source for 42%, lower cervical joints for 18%, and C3-4 for 7%. (2) Not that every La Grande headache patient must experience this type of testing to be helped, but the results were interesting for healthcare providers to help diagnose and treat headache patients in a better way.
MANUAL TREATMENT FOR HEADACHE
In a review of published clinical trials, researchers noted that spinal manipulation was employed often to manage cervicogenic headache. Spinal manipulation was effective, supplied superior, small, short term benefits for decreasing pain, headache frequency, and related disability compared with other manual approaches. (3) One relieving treatment referred to as SNAGs (sustained natural apophyseal glides) has been described in the medical literature. In a placebo vs SNAG study, researchers found that SNAGs were effective for pain reduction and neck disability decrease as well as range of motion improvement for women with cervicogenic headache. (4) Manual therapy approaches like this help headache. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC provides Cox® Technic, a gliding, doctor-controlled neck treatment for such conditions as La Grande headache and neck pain.
CONTACT Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC
Listen to the PODCAST with Dr. David Kulla on the Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares the effectiveness and gentleness of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his patient with headache and neck pain and improved her quality of life.
Schedule your next La Grande headache chiropractic appointment with Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC. Bothersome, life-disrupting headaches may meet their match at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC for relief of pain and disability.
