Fort Wayne Migraine Sufferers May Find Exercise and Chiropractic Help
Migraine is a draining condition for its sufferers. It’s costly in terms of pain, money, and pharmacological use necessity. Drugs are still the “gold standard” of care. Patients often request choices from their migraine healthcare providers for non-drug alternatives. Fort Wayne migraine sufferers want alternative ideas! Aaron Chiropractic Clinic puts forward that exercise may be one such useful option.
EXERCISE FOR CHRONIC PAIN
Migraine is, for most Fort Wayne migraine sufferers, a chronic pain condition. It is not usually a one time situation. Chronic pain disrupts the nervous system as well as the specific pain-generating issue. Researchers explained evidence that exercise helps a variety of chronic pain conditions including migraine directly and indirectly with a goal of changing the cycle of pain, sedentariness, and degenerating disability. These changes don’t emerge overnight. They come with long-term, regular, individualized exercise bringing about improvement in pain and function. (1) Aaron Chiropractic Clinic tells our Fort Wayne chiropractic patients with all types of conditions that it’s slow and steady commitment that gets the result.
EXERCISE FOR MIGRAINE BEING STUDIED
Researchers and migraine sufferers alike hold out hope for an easy, low-cost approach to migraine care. For example, a recent comparison project of neck-specific exercise set against sham ultrasound to reduce the frequency and intensity of migraine attacks. (2) A recent meta-analysis in Headache reported that aerobic exercise for migraine patients dropped the number of migraine days. (3) These are beneficial outcomes for Fort Wayne migraine treatment.
EXERCISE BENEFITS: Overall and Migraine Specific
Fort Wayne chiropractic patients are often urged 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 impacts the microvascular system that possibly influences a certain type of cortical spreading depression. Specific to migraine, exercise benefited migraine self-efficacy by permitting the migraine sufferer to have a sense of control which lessened migraine burden. How much exercise produces this type of effect? “Sufficiently rigorous aerobic exercise” resulted in statistically significant decrease in migraine frequency, intensity and duration. That is appreciated by Fort Wayne migraine sufferers! Naturally, higher intensity exercise appears to bring about more benefit. Pharmacological drugs like topiramate were noted to be superior to exercise, but adding exercise to its use was suggested to be beneficial. Migraine sufferers who also have neck pain or tension headache are reported as benefiting from exercise. Low impact is valuable if high impact exercise is not doable. (4) Aaron Chiropractic Clinic concurs 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 included Cox® Technic spinal manipulation as well as exercise for welcomed relief by his patient.
