La Grande Migraine Sufferers May Find Exercise and Chiropractic Help
Migraine is a debilitating condition for its sufferers. It’s expensive in terms of pain, money, and pharmacological use necessity. Drugs are still the “gold standard” of care. Patients often ask their migraine healthcare providers for non-pharamacological options. La Grande migraine sufferers want choices! Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC proposes that exercise may be one such positive option.
EXERCISE FOR CHRONIC PAIN
Migraine is, for most La Grande migraine sufferers, a chronic pain condition. It is not typically a one and done condition. Chronic pain disturbs the nervous system as well as the specific pain-generating issue. 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 degenerating disability. These changes don’t come overnight. They come with long-term, regular, individualized exercise resulting in improvement in pain and function. (1) Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC tells our La Grande chiropractic patients with all sorts 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, inexpensive 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 recent meta-analysis in Headache stated that aerobic exercise for migraine patients decreased the number of migraine days. (3) These are beneficial outcomes for La Grande migraine treatment.
EXERCISE BENEFITS: Overall and Migraine Specific
La Grande 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 positively influences the microvascular system that possibly influences a certain type of cortical spreading depression. Migraine specifically, exercise benefited migraine self-efficacy by permitting the migraine sufferer to have a sense of control which reduced migraine burden. How much exercise does this? “Sufficiently rigorous aerobic exercise” brought about statistically significant drop in migraine frequency, intensity and duration. That is appreciated by La Grande migraine sufferers! Naturally, higher intensity exercise appears to bring about more benefit. Pharmacological drugs like topiramate were noted to be better than exercise, but adding exercise to its use was suggested to provide benefit. Migraine sufferers who also experience neck pain or tension headache are reported to benefit from exercise. Low impact is valuable if high impact exercise is not possible. (4) Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC agrees 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 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 appreciated relief by his patient.
