Category - Migraine Treatments

Migraine Headaches are defined as primarily a genetic neurological disease that is characterized by episodes called Migraine attacks. They are quite different from regular headaches which are non-migrainous and there are about 100 million people suffer from headaches in the U.S. while 37 million of these people suffer migraines. The World Health Organization estimates that about 18 percent of women and 7 percent of men in the U.S. suffer from these types of headaches. Migraines are called primary headaches because the pain is not caused by a disorder or disease. Sometimes the pain is only on the right side or left side of the head, while others can experience the pain everywhere. Migraine sufferers can have moderate or severe pain but they usually can’t participate in regular activities because of the pain. When a migraine strikes, a quiet dark room may help with the symptoms and migraines can last for four hours or can last for days. The range of time that someone is affected by an attack is actually longer than the headache itself. This is because there is a pre-monitory or build-up, and then a post-drome that can last for one to two days. Many healthcare professionals can help present a series of articles and posts that are discussing the issues, treatments, and methods that are available for the treatment of migraines. Surprisingly though, chiropractic care has clinically substantiated its efficacy in being a prominent treatment for large subsets of migraine headache sufferers.