If you suffer from headaches, a chiropractic spinal checkup is one of the best things you can do.  Chiropractic’s safe, gentle, drugless methods have helped millions of headache sufferers over the years.  Yet chiropractic does not claim to be a headache treatment and cure – it has a different approach to health care.  Doctors of chiropractic free your body from the vertebral subluxation complex, or VSC, that has the power to destroy your health.  It affects millions of us – it is a hidden epidemic.  When free of subluxations your body works more efficiently to use its natural energies to heal itself.  How is this accomplished?  Read on.

Muscle Tension Headaches
Many things can cause a headache:  Strong smells; intense lights; sinus trouble; high blood pressure; dental problems; ear, eye or vision conditions; fevers; infections; tumors; seizures; lumbar punctures; alcoholic drinks; drugs; accidents and other causes.  You can get a headache just worrying about all the things that cause them.  And threat leads us to the most common headache of all:  the muscle tension worry or “stress” headache that makes up 90% of all headaches.

What Puts the Ache In Headache?
The ache in headache does not come from the brain.  It’s true!  Your brain can feel no sensation.  Even during brain surgery the patient is often wide awake feeling no pain, even talking to the doctors while his/her brain is being tampered with (a local anesthetic numbs the scalp).  What puts the “ache” in your headache?  Veins and arteries inside the brain and skull, membranes that wrap around the brain and certain nerves in the head called the cranial nerves.  When these are pulled, stretched, compressed, irritated, inflamed or infected, headaches often result.

Treatment
Headache treatment depends on what caused it.  A headache arising from visual problems can often be cured by eyeglasses.  An infection headache of the sinuses or ears is relieved when the infection subsides.  But the most common headaches are usually treated with painkillers.  The hundreds of millions of dollars spent each year on everything from aspirin and Tylenol™ to prescription drugs may provide blessed relief, but please remember – the pain may be gone but the cause of the headache is not corrected.  That’s why we may see millions of people swallowing pills for years, possibly suffering from the side effects of long-term medication – and not getting any better, only temporarily feeling better.  Surely, that’s not a healthy way to live.

The Chiropractic Approach
Millions of headache sufferers are turning to the natural, drugless chiropractic approach to health.  Chiropractors are the only healing professionals who are trained to analyze and correct the vertebral subluxation complex – a spinal distortion that can damage your nerves, inflame your tissues, cause muscles to tighten and knot, weaken your body, cause fatigue and set the stage for sickness and disease.  It is truly a hidden epidemic.

The Chiropractic Checkup
Just as you may have a cavity in your teeth and be unaware of the damage it’s causing, so the VSC may be causing serious harm to your body – sometimes for years – without your knowledge.

Using his/her hands, X-ray and other instruments to analyze your spine, the chiropractor will determine if you have VSC.  Then, using special techniques, your chiropractor will perform a chiropractic spinal adjustment to correct the vertebral subluxation complex, removing the nerve pressure and spinal distortions.

Midwest Chiropractic 3137 Dixie Hwy (Next To Gold’s Gym)     (859) 426-5870 Hours:   Weekdays  2-8 pm  Saturdays  11am – 2pm

Kentucky Chiropractic Dr. John Squicciarini, Chiropractor 4 Hidden Valley Drive Highland Heights, KY 41079 (Behind Hardee’s) (859) 441-8181 Hours: Mon, Wed, Thurs 9am – 12pm : 3:15pm – 6:30pm Tues: 3pm - 4:30pm Fri:  3:15 – 4:30pm Saturday By Appointment Email: tothegym@fuse.net