Headaches

The human body is truly amazing.  When a bone in your neck goes out of alignment, your body is built to automatically compensate for it by tensing up the muscles around the subluxation to prevent further injury and damage to your neck.  But, there are side effects to this natural reaction.  Headaches are very often one of the side effects, as the combination of the pressure on the spinal cord from the misaligned vertebra and the muscle tension leads to a viscious cycle that ends in pain.  If left uncorrected too long, a subluxation like this can cause permanent loss of mobility in your neck, as the body gets used to the new, incorrect, position of the vertebra.

Prevention is the best medicine, and that saying also applies here.  When your neck is properly aligned, the muscles around your spine get used to holding your neck in its proper position, which can drastically reduce the frequency and severity of headaches, if not eliminate them entirely.  So, if you have ever had a headache, come in and see us, and we will make sure we do our best to keep it from happening again.