Headache Pain - Chronic Headache Pain Suffers Finally Have Hope

Chronic headache pain can be debilitating. According to the US Surgeon General nearly 28 Million people suffer from migraines in the US every year. Another 45 million suffer from tension headaches. Cluster headaches, which are the least common type, can occur daily for a period of weeks or months often waking the sufferer from sleep and preventing any sense of a normal life while they occur. Although cluster headaches can disappear just as sudden as they appeared, not reoccurring until the same season the next year, the debilitating effect while they last can be devastating. Any of these types of chronic pain can be severe enough to prevent normal functioning and interfere with daily tasks, often causing the sufferer to cease all activity for the duration of the pain.

There are a variety of treatments for headache pain, but few offer lasting relief. Sufferers may take medication on a daily basis, limit daily activity, consider surgery, try physical therapy or even take repeated injections with little or no lasting relief. Most people attempt to rely on pain-killers such as Vicodin, which can prove addictive and not successful at long term relief. Topiramate is increasingly being prescribed, but has the side effect of paresthesia, a sensation of numbness and/or tingling, in about 30% of the patients. Injections of muscle relaxants or steroids can eliminate the immediate pain, but suffers typically find the pain returning in as little as a few hours.

Other methods of relief for chronic headaches are massage or physical therapy. Tension headaches used to be thought of as muscle tension in the neck and shoulders, which is why so often suffers attempt relief through massage. The headache pain often feels like a band of pressure around the head, and may be accompanied by pain in the neck and shoulders. However, the pain may actually be because the pain control center of the spine is getting too much input from other areas of the body. Treatment of this type of pain needs to focus on the spine and not the tension itself.

There is a new method of treatment for headache pain called Spinal Decompression therapy. This is non-surgical method and is gaining wide spread attention all over the country. With a 70% chance of allowing the patient to resuming normal daily activities many chronic headache suffers are finding Spinal Decompression therapy is the key in not just treating the symptoms, but eradicating the cause of the problem.

At Spine Care, a state-of-the-art chiropractic office located in Eastchester, NY, we have been treating patients who suffer from headache pain since 2001 using Spinal Decompression therapy. You don't have to live with headache pain. With the right treatment you can get back to your normal routine. Get on the road to recovery by contacting us today: