Montreal Migraine Sufferers May Find Exercise and Chiropractic Help
Migraine is a draining condition for its sufferers. It is expensive in terms of pain, money, and pharmacological use need. Drugs are still the “gold standard” of care. Patients often ask their migraine healthcare providers for non-drug alternatives. Montreal migraine sufferers want choices! Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic puts forward that exercise may be one such positive alternative.
EXERCISE FOR CHRONIC PAIN
Migraine is, for most Montreal migraine sufferers, a chronic pain condition. It’s not typically a one and done condition. Chronic pain disrupts the nervous system as well as the specific pain-generating issue. Researchers described 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 do not come overnight. They come with long-term, regular, individualized exercise giving rise to improvement in pain and function. (1) Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic reminds our Montreal chiropractic patients with all types of conditions that it is slow and steady commitment that results in desired outcomes.
EXERCISE FOR MIGRAINE BEING STUDIED
Researchers and migraine sufferers alike hold out hope for an easy, low-cost approach to migraine care. Case in point, a recent comparison project of neck-specific exercise set against sham ultrasound to reduce the frequency and intensity of migraine attacks. (2) A new meta-analysis in Headache stated that aerobic exercise for migraine patients decreased the number of migraine days. (3) These are beneficial outcomes for Montreal migraine treatment.
EXERCISE BENEFITS: Overall and Migraine Specific
Montreal chiropractic patients are manytimes 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 suppresses inflammation via reduction of inflammatory modulators (many cytokines) and stress hormones (growth hormone and cortisol). Exercise positively influences the microvascular system that certainly influences 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 lessened migraine burden. How much exercise produces this type of effect? “Sufficiently rigorous aerobic exercise” brought about statistically significant decrease in migraine frequency, intensity and duration. That’s appreciated by Montreal migraine sufferers! Naturally, higher intensity exercise seems to bring about more benefit. Pharmacological drugs like topiramate were noted to be superior to exercise, but including exercise into its use was implied as being beneficial. Migraine sufferers who also experience neck pain or tension headache are reported as benefiting from exercise. Low impact is worthwhile if high impact exercise is not doable. (4) Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic concurs with the researchers’ outcome: exercise is a practical evidence-based recommendation for migraine prevention.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. David Kulla on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes how he followed The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his patient with migraine which incorporated Cox® Technic spinal manipulation as well as exercise for welcomed relief by his patient.
