Headache and Migraine Therapy from Hybrid Therapy UK
If you’ve ever suffered from a headache or migraine, you know that it can affect every aspect of your life, along with those around you.
Migraines are quite common, and affect one in every five women and one in every fifteen men. The symptoms may vary, though often severe pain and throbbing accompanied with nausea and dizziness, and can occur up to several times a week or only occasionally. Often you do not always get a warning before interrupting your day.
Migraines can be brought on by specific triggers, inflammation in the nervous system, muscle damage, disc displacement and as a result of a head injury.
Migraines can be triggered by things like:
women’s hormone levels
foods- cheese, chocolate, dairy, red wine
altered sleep patterns/ too little sleep
stress and anxiety
caffeine/ caffeine withdrawal
dehydration
low blood sugar
loud noises/ urgent smells/ bright lights
You can try to limit your exposure to the triggers, but finding the cause of the migraines is key to their management.
Headaches, that are not migraines, can also cause severe symptoms and are often under-estimated in their effects on your life.
Before considering the appropriate treatment for you, the type and cause of the headaches should be established.
Tension Headaches are the most common headaches. They can often feel like they are affecting the whole head. The symptoms often affect the back of the eye, or sometimes like a tight band around the head. You might describe them as feeling pressure, and they are aggravated by stress, poor lighting and dehydration
Cluster Headache/ Horton’s syndrome is rarer but the severe pain is extreme and often you feel no relief. They are the type of headache that feel like someone is sticking a knife into your eyes or forehead. They are often treated with oxygen and strong pain medications.
Cervicogenic Headaches usually start at the back of the head and often feel like this radiates over the skull. Posture can be a huge contributing factor to this type of headache!
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Seeking treatment?
You need to consider any triggers that bring on the headache or migraine? Are there any patterns to the headaches, and does the headache change? If you can identify this, it will be easier to treat… but don’t worry
If you have reached the point of no return from dealing with regular headaches, hope is not lost!
Following a full consultation and assessment, the options for treatment will depend upon your individual status, though will often include manual therapy, photobiomodulation and ANF therapy.
If you’ve tried everything else, then what have you got to lose? ANF Therapy is known as the therapy ‘when nothing else helps’
Migraines and headaches
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