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What Does A Bellevue Massage Do For A Cervicogenic Headache?
Jan 13th
Cervicogenic Headaches are complications in which the pain originates in the neck and cervical spine. It is medically outlined as discomfort which is existing in the head but originates in cervical backbone region. Neck ache and pain generally take place together. This kind of complications are often the end result of neck injury, whiplash, or due to weak postural muscles.
Car accidents are one of the major causes of neck causing headaches. You have 20 tiny muscles, 8 nerves, and 7 bones in your neck and in a whiplash injury from a car crash all of these small structures are thrown every which way creating a ton of damage! All this damage creates pain, and if it happens just right it will shoot the pain into your head, creating a headache.
Most cervicogenic headaches will come with a variety of other signs and symptoms such as stiffness in the neck, reduced ability to turn the head, nausea, discomfort in the eyes, to name a few. The severity of these headaches depend mostly on how long they have been going on and how much damage there is in the neck. Many of my patients also tell me that these types of headaches are made worse when they move their heads.
Treatments for a cervicogenic headache include:
When treating cervicogenic headaches the most important treatment is done in the neck to help it heal to its potential. Here are a few treatments that can be utilized on the neck to help get rid of headaches.
1. Chiropractic Care- Chiropractors are professionals at diagnosing and healing neck dysfunction. If there is a difficulty in the neck, such as a sprain or strain, or bones out of alignment there is no better spot to acquire proper care. Analysis has proven time and again that chiropractic proper care is one of, if not the finest kinds of treatment for neck pain.
2. Therapeutic massage- Gentle workout routines and neck therapeutic massage can be actually beneficial in alleviating the discomfort induced by your headaches. The muscular tissues near the base of the skull may be strained and therapeutic massage can assist in comforting these muscular tissues. Therapeutic massage remedy can provide you the biggest aid in short period of time, allowing you to come back to your work quickly.
3. Posture- A study was done recently that showed that if you keep your body in a certain position for 40 minutes it will stay in that bad position. Guess what? You may be doing this every single day at your job, while on your computer. Most people have very poor posture while sitting at the computer, and this can be one of the big causes of cervicogenic headaches! Your bellevue massage therapist can advise you on how to fix these issues.
Aside from the already mentioned remedy techniques, you will need sufficient rest. There are several workouts to strengthen neck muscle tissue. Doing this kind of workout routines often can be beneficial in getting rid of cervicogenic headaches as very well as preventing them from re-occurring in future. However you require to consider the suggestions of an skilled ahead of starting such exercises.
Dr. Michael Weir is a Bellevue Chiropractor . To make an appointment with Dr. Michael Weir to see if you are a candidate for his care call 425-635-0495 .. Also published at What Does A Bellevue Massage Do For A Cervicogenic Headache?.
Bellevue Car Accidents And Headaches.
Jan 12th
If you know someone who suffers with headaches (or if you deal with headaches) you know what a horrible thing they are. Did you know that the Center fro Disease Control estimates that 45 million Americans suffer with severe headaches? You are not alone!
Now there are many type of headaches that these 45 million Americans suffer with, but the most common type is a cervicogenic headache (sometimes known as a tension headache). Cervicogenic headaches are headaches that come from, or originate from the neck.
Cervicogenic, or originating from the neck, means that the headaches are coming from the bones, muscles, nerves and surrounding structures. If the bones in the neck loose their normal, correct positioning it puts a tremendous amount of pressure and stress on the nerves, blood vessels and potentially even your brain. This stress over the long term can create dangerous degenerative changes and the only way for the body to let you know that there is a problem is to give you pain. This is the bodies warning signal.
It is a lot like the fire alarm in your house. When the fire alarm goes off in your house, there is probably a fire or smoke in your house. What do you do when you hear the alarm? You call the fire department and get out of the house, of course. It is the same thing in the body, w hen you have a head ache you have to remove the reason for the headache, which m any times is a misalignment of the bones of the neck from injury, poor posture, a traumatic birth, or even falls as a child!
Weather you have been involved in a car accident, or have had headaches your entire life, there is an answer. Pain is an indicator that there is a problem somewhere. The key is to find what the problem is and deal with it.We at Back in Action Chiropractic have found that when you re align the bones of the spine a huge majority of the time the headaches go away or are greatly reduced! If you would like to see if you are a candidate for these headache treatments you can schedule a consultation with our doctors today.
Doctor Michael Weir is a local Bellevue chiropractor at Back in Action Chiropractic. To schedule an appointment with Doctor Weir simply call his office at 425-635-0495
What Can A Bellevue Chiropractor Do For Carpal Tunnel?
Jan 7th
“My name is Bill, and I work in the marketing department for Microsoft. Over the past three months I’ve been noticing that my day-to-day activities such as buttoning my shirt, opening the milk jug, and caring my briefcase are becoming increasingly difficult due to the pain that they cause.it seems as though the pain in my wrist and hand his worst when I’m at work, working on the computer. The pain is becoming so bad, that I am now worried that I will not be able to continue my job duties if it does not go away.what should I do?”
This is something that I hear on a daily basis, and his condition called carpal tunnel syndrome. It is an extremely common disorder affecting them many Americans each year. It is especially a concern for many of those who work and live in Bellevue Washington at a computer on a daily basis, as this is one of the aggravating factors.
Carpal tunnel syndrome is the result of a pinch of one of the nerves that travels down your arm from your neck. This nerve, called the median nerve can become pinched at the neck, any of the muscles in the arm, or bones of the wrist. This condition usually occurs when the muscles joints and tendons of the forearm and hand are overworked, and swell up. The swelling causes pressure through the wrist and pinches the nerve creating pain, numbness, tingling, and on occasion burning sensations in the hand.
Certain situations make people more vulnerable or prone to develop CTS. CTS is more common in woman than men by 3 or 4:1. This is partially because women’s bone structure is smaller and therefore their Carpal Tunnel is smaller too.
Women also experience fluid retention or build up during menstruation leading to symptoms like swollen fingers and swollen and painful breasts. Inflammation in this already tight, small space of the wrist will increase the vulnerability of that person to carpal tunnel syndrome. Another hormone related cause or contributing factor is the use of birth control pills (BCPs). Since there are many different types of BCPs and each woman is unique and different, finding the BCP with the “right balance” of hormones where the swelling side effect is minimized is very important and should be discussed with the doctor who prescribed the BCPs.
Chiropractors can help with carpal tunnel syndrome through the use of chiropractic adjustments to help realign joints, exercises to help strengthen the area, and anti-inflammatory diets. The biggest help is in eliminating the cause of what created the CTS in the first place, which most of the time is poor ergonomics. Having a chiropractor as one of your team members in treating your CTS is a vital component in eliminating your hand and wrist pains.
Dr. Weir is local Bellevue chiropractor at Back in Action Chiropractic. To schedule an appointment with Dr. Weir call his clinic at 425-635-0495
Your Bellevue Chiropractor and Baby Boomers
Dec 7th
Gravity is a constant force on the body if we like it or not. Every day that you get out of bed, the pull of gravity is acting as a stressor on your body. It pulls on the joints, the ligaments, the muscles, tendons, organs…every part of your body. As we get a little older this stress starts to take its toll on the body, especially the joints. One name that we put on the consequences of this stress is arthritis.
Proper alignment and mobility in the joints of the body is vitally important to weak muscle and joints. If any of the bones or joints are not in proper alignment or are not moving well this can create pain (such as low back pain or even headaches), stiffness, weakness, and instability. It is especially important to the aging body to maintain proper joint function.
If you are getting into your later years and are starting to feel the effects of gravity acting on you, its probably time to see a Bellevue chiropractor. A Bellevue chiropractor looks at all the effects of a disfunctional spines and takes away the negative effects that it can have on you.
A great way that I like to think about how gravity wears the body down is to compare it to my car. Just a month ago I had to go in to get my tires rotated. As they looked at my tires they let me know that one side of my tires was very worn in comparison to the other side and this was most likely due to a front end misalignment. They also said that a “realignment” would take the problem away and I would not go through as many tires. The same holds true for the human body. If our “frame” is misaligned then our “tires” will also wear. Lets do a test…take your shoes off and look at the bottom of your shoes. Is there any wear on one side or the other? This wear is most likely due to a misalignment.
Did you find wear on the bottom of your shoe? If you did then you are a prime candidate to be evaluated by your Bellevue chiropractor to asses for “misalignment”.
Dr. Weir is the treating physician at Back in Action Chiropractic in Bellevue, Washington. If you would like to schedule an consultationwith Dr. Weir please call us today at 425-635-0495.