Headaches and the help to empower your health better

Headaches

Headaches come in many painful types for people including tension, cluster, migraine and with allergy season.  There are many approaches that can help with your headaches and that can be very beneficial without those drowsy OTC medicines or pharmaceutical medications with heavy side effects.

Tension-like headaches are usually the result of long days and stress from out high paced lifestyle.  They are from the tightening or contraction of shoulder, neck and scalp muscles causing constriction of the vessels therefore causing pain.  Anti-inflammatories like fish oil, bromelain, curcumin, and taking white willow bark will assist in the decrease of inflammation and pain symptoms.  However, coping mechanisms like relaxation, meditation, yoga and working out will also relieve stress of the day. 

Migraine headaches are usually associated with visual changes, nausea and sensitivity to light and sound.  The cause of migraines is unknown, but the pain is due to the dilation of blood vessels in the head.  Naturopathic medicine will look further into dehydration, nutritional deficiencies, high blood pressure, GI dysfunction and musculoskeletal problems.  We often will recommend acupuncture especially with any headache type as studies show a 50% decrease in headaches.  Recommendations of magnesium, calcium, vitamin C, B vitamins, dietary restrictions sometimes from the nightshade family like tomatoes and eggplant will also be very beneficial.  Considerations of botanicals like ginger, wobenzyme, feverfew, butterbur to address the complications and pain of migraines.

There are many approaches to help with different types of headaches and to empower you to feel better but more naturally with least side effects.  Remembering that good diet that is clean and anti-inflammatory will be supportive.  Supplementation is important for overall health and your headaches.  Treatments like acupuncture, physical adjustments, homeopathy, constitutional hydrotherapy, biofeedback therapy and relaxation training are very beneficial to headaches and skills for relaxation and wellbeing.

Headaches come in many painful types for people including tension, cluster, migraine and with allergy season.  There are many approaches that can help with your headaches and that can be very beneficial without those drowsy OTC medicines or pharmaceutical medications with heavy side effects.

Tension-like headaches are usually the result of long days and stress from out high paced lifestyle.  They are from the tightening or contraction of shoulder, neck and scalp muscles causing constriction of the vessels therefore causing pain.  Anti-inflammatories like fish oil, bromelain, curcumin, and taking white willow bark will assist in the decrease of inflammation and pain symptoms.  However, coping mechanisms like relaxation, meditation, yoga and working out will also relieve stress of the day. 

Migraine headaches are usually associated with visual changes, nausea and sensitivity to light and sound.  The cause of migraines is unknown, but the pain is due to the dilation of blood vessels in the head.  Naturopathic medicine will look further into dehydration, nutritional deficiencies, high blood pressure, GI dysfunction and musculoskeletal problems.  We often will recommend acupuncture especially with any headache type as studies show a 50% decrease in headaches.  Recommendations of magnesium, calcium, vitamin C, B vitamins, dietary restrictions sometimes from the nightshade family like tomatoes and eggplant will also be very beneficial.  Considerations of botanicals like ginger, wobenzyme, feverfew, butterbur to address the complications and pain of migraines.

There are many approaches to help with different types of headaches and to empower you to feel better but more naturally with least side effects.  Remembering that good diet that is clean and anti-inflammatory will be supportive.  Supplementation is important for overall health and your headaches.  Treatments like acupuncture, physical adjustments, homeopathy, constitutional hydrotherapy, biofeedback therapy and relaxation training are very beneficial to headaches and skills for relaxation and wellbeing.

Headaches come in many painful types for people including tension, cluster, migraine and with allergy season.  There are many approaches that can help with your headaches and that can be very beneficial without those drowsy OTC medicines or pharmaceutical medications with heavy side effects.

Tension-like headaches are usually the result of long days and stress from out high paced lifestyle.  They are from the tightening or contraction of shoulder, neck and scalp muscles causing constriction of the vessels therefore causing pain.  Anti-inflammatories like fish oil, bromelain, curcumin, and taking white willow bark will assist in the decrease of inflammation and pain symptoms.  However, coping mechanisms like relaxation, meditation, yoga and working out will also relieve stress of the day. 

Migraine headaches are usually associated with visual changes, nausea and sensitivity to light and sound.  The cause of migraines is unknown, but the pain is due to the dilation of blood vessels in the head.  Naturopathic medicine will look further into dehydration, nutritional deficiencies, high blood pressure, GI dysfunction and musculoskeletal problems.  We often will recommend acupuncture especially with any headache type as studies show a 50% decrease in headaches.  Recommendations of magnesium, calcium, vitamin C, B vitamins, dietary restrictions sometimes from the nightshade family like tomatoes and eggplant will also be very beneficial.  Considerations of botanicals like ginger, wobenzyme, feverfew, butterbur to address the complications and pain of migraines.

There are many approaches to help with different types of headaches and to empower you to feel better but more naturally with least side effects.  Remembering that good diet that is clean and anti-inflammatory will be supportive.  Supplementation is important for overall health and your headaches.  Treatments like acupuncture, physical adjustments, homeopathy, constitutional hydrotherapy, biofeedback therapy and relaxation training are very beneficial to headaches and skills for relaxation and wellbeing.