Help for Migraine Headaches

New research supports the use of Chiropractic Care for the treatment of Migraine headaches:

Just as puzzles are completed piece by piece, the evidence for the positive effects of chiropractic care for migraines is slowly filling in and revealing a clearer picture.  That picture depicts a more meaningful role for chiropractic care in both the prevention and treatment of migraine headache.  A recent Norwegian systematic review of manual therapies for migraine prevention (4 Feb 2011) concluded that chiropractic spinal manipulation and some other conservative interventions appear to be equal to medications (propranolol & topiramate) in their ability to prevent migraines.

 

Although most of the published research supporting chiropractic treatment of migraine is based upon case reports, there have been other studies including a limited number of randomized clinical trials.  A previous 2001 systematic review by Bronfort et. al. concluded that “Spinal Manipulative Therapy (SMT) appears to have a better effect than massage for cervicogenic headache.  It also appears that SMT has an effect comparable to commonly used first-line prophylactic prescription medications for tension-type headache and migraine headache.  This conclusion rests upon a few trials of adequate methodological quality.  Before any firm conclusions can be drawn, further testing should be done in rigorously designed, executed, and analyzed trials with follow-up periods of sufficient length.”

Since this review, favourable research continues to build in support of chiropractic manipulation as an effective treatment for migraine headaches.

So if you or loved-one is suffering from chronic headaches, why not try Chiropractic care as a drug-free alternative....it works!