One of the most common reasons people seek Acupuncture and Chiropractic care for headaches in Overland Park is for headaches. Chiropractic care, acupuncture, and nutritional counseling can get you back on the road to a pain free life!
When you have a headache, your eyes hurt, your forehead pounds, your neck is sore and tight, and your scalp feels as if it’s being slowly removed. Lights bother you and noise sets your teeth on edge. Then there are your children, the house, dinner, your spouse, and the daily demands of life. You would like to stop the world and get off!
Headaches have been sold to the public as a disease to be “treated”. Millions of dollars in advertising are spent annually on the benefits of drugs for headaches. We’ve bought into this carefully contrived thinking. Let’s look at this from a different perspective. The word headache simply means ache in the head. It’s not a disease. It’s a pain – a symptom. I’m not making light of the symptom: it can be severe and debilitating.
Most people are so busy treating their pain they forget that pain has a reason for being. A headache is your body “talking” back to you and you need to interpret that language. It’s a signal to let you know that your body’s having a difficult time handling something and the vast majority of headaches are found at the base of the head, in the region of the temples or over the eyes.
There are several different types of headaches and several different causes for each type of headache. Chiropractors have found that many headaches signify a distortion of some of the vertebrae of the neck area affecting the function of the nervous system. When this happens certain muscles are called into play to protect the nervous system from damage resulting in tension.
Some headaches are not caused by subluxations. They can be caused by wrong diet, poor nutrition, toxins, hormonal changes, or a disease process.
No headaches should be taken lightly. Something is not right. At Stephens Chiropractic and Wellness we will provide a comprehensive examination to help determine the reason for your headaches. Stephens Chiropractic and Wellness will get you back to living a healthy life with chiropractic care, acupuncture, or nutritional counseling.
