Ashburn and Herndon Migraine Sufferers May Find Exercise and Chiropractic Help
Migraine is a draining condition for its sufferers. It’s 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-pharamacological alternatives. Ashburn and Herndon migraine sufferers want choices! Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn suggests that exercise may be one such positive choice.
EXERCISE FOR CHRONIC PAIN
Migraine is, for most Ashburn and Herndon migraine sufferers, a chronic pain condition. It’s not usually a one and done situation. Chronic pain affects the nervous system and the specific pain-generating issue. 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 worsening disability. These changes don’t emerge overnight. They come with long-term, regular, individualized exercise giving rise to improvement in pain and function. (1) Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn tells our Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic patients with all sorts 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, inexpensive approach to migraine care. For example, a recent comparison study of neck-specific exercise versus sham ultrasound to decrease the frequency and intensity of migraine attacks. (2) A recent meta-analysis in Headache explained that aerobic exercise for migraine patients decreased the number of migraine days. (3) These are valuable outcomes for Ashburn and Herndon migraine treatment.
EXERCISE BENEFITS: Overall and Migraine Specific
Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic patients are often encouraged 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 stifles inflammation via reduction of inflammatory modulators (many cytokines) and stress hormones (growth hormone and cortisol). Exercise positively influences the microvascular system that certainly affects a certain type of cortical spreading depression. Specific to migraine, exercise benefited migraine self-efficacy by allowing the migraine sufferer to have a sense of control which reduced migraine burden. How much exercise produces this type of effect? “Sufficiently rigorous aerobic exercise” brought about statistically significant reduction in migraine frequency, intensity and duration. That is appreciated by Ashburn and Herndon migraine sufferers! Of course, higher intensity exercise appears to bring about more benefit. Pharmacological drugs like topiramate were reported to be better than exercise, but adding exercise to its use was implied as being beneficial. Migraine sufferers who also experience neck pain or tension headache are reported to benefit from exercise. Low impact is worthwhile if high impact exercise is not possible. (4) Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn concurs with the researchers’ outcome: exercise is a reasonable evidence-based recommendation for migraine prevention.
CONTACT Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. David Kulla on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he presents 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.
