Auburn Migraine Sufferers May Find Exercise and Chiropractic Help
Migraine is a draining condition for its sufferers. It is expensive in terms of pain, money, and pharmacological use necessity. Drugs remain the “gold standard” of care. Patients often ask their migraine healthcare providers for non-drug alternatives. Auburn migraine sufferers want alternative ideas! Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. suggests that exercise may be one such useful alternative.
EXERCISE FOR CHRONIC PAIN
Migraine is, for most Auburn migraine sufferers, a chronic pain condition. It’s not typically a one and done condition. Chronic pain disrupts the nervous system and the specific pain-generator. Researchers explained 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 declining disability. These changes don’t emerge overnight. They come with long-term, consistent, individualized exercise resulting in improvement in pain and function. (1) Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. reminds our Auburn chiropractic patients with all types 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, 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 explained that aerobic exercise for migraine patients dropped the number of migraine days. (3) These are valuable outcomes for Auburn migraine treatment.
EXERCISE BENEFITS: Overall and Migraine Specific
Auburn chiropractic patients are often encouraged to exercise. Exercise seems like a recommended panacea for everything from back pain to migraine to depression to neck pain and so much more. Why? It works. Exercise stifles inflammation via reduction of inflammatory modulators (many cytokines) and stress hormones (growth hormone and cortisol). Exercise positively impacts the microvascular system that certainly affects a certain type of cortical spreading depression. Specific to migraine, exercise helped migraine self-efficacy by allowing the migraine sufferer to have a sense of control which reduced migraine burden. How much exercise does this? “Sufficiently rigorous aerobic exercise” resulted in statistically significant drop in migraine frequency, intensity and duration. That’s appreciated by Auburn migraine sufferers! Naturally, higher intensity exercise seems to bring about more benefit. Pharmacological drugs like topiramate were reported to be better than exercise, but including exercise into its use was implied as being beneficial. Migraine sufferers who also experience neck pain or tension headache are reported as benefiting from exercise. Low impact is worthwhile if high impact exercise is not doable. (4) Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. concurs with the researchers’ bottom-line: 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 describes 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 welcomed relief by his patient.
