Oxford Migraine Sufferers May Find Exercise and Chiropractic Help
Migraine is a debilitating condition for its sufferers. It is costly in terms of pain, money, and pharmacological use necessity. Drugs are still the “gold standard” of care. Patients often ask their migraine healthcare providers for non-drug options. Oxford migraine sufferers want choices! Satterwhite Chiropractic puts forward that exercise may be one such useful alternative.
EXERCISE FOR CHRONIC PAIN
Migraine is, for most Oxford migraine sufferers, a chronic pain condition. It’s not usually a one time situation. Chronic pain disrupts the nervous system and 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 declining disability. These changes do not come overnight. They come with long-term, consistent, individualized exercise giving rise to improvement in pain and function. (1) Satterwhite Chiropractic tells our Oxford chiropractic patients with all sorts of conditions that it’s slow and steady commitment that gets the result.
EXERCISE FOR MIGRAINE BEING STUDIED
Researchers and migraine sufferers alike hold out hope for a simple, inexpensive approach to migraine care. Case in point, a new comparison project of neck-specific exercise set against sham ultrasound to reduce the frequency and intensity of migraine attacks. (2) A recent meta-analysis in Headache reported that aerobic exercise for migraine patients dropped the number of migraine days. (3) These are valuable outcomes for Oxford migraine treatment.
EXERCISE BENEFITS: Overall and Migraine Specific
Oxford chiropractic patients are manytimes encouraged to exercise. Exercise appears to be 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 impacts the microvascular system that possibly affects 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 reduced migraine burden. How much exercise produces this type of effect? “Sufficiently rigorous aerobic exercise” brought about statistically significant reduction in migraine frequency, intensity and duration. That is appreciated by Oxford migraine sufferers! Of course, higher intensity exercise appears to bring about more benefit. Pharmacological drugs like topiramate were noted to be superior to exercise, but including exercise into its use was suggested to provide benefit. Migraine sufferers who also have neck pain or tension headache are reported to benefit from exercise. Low impact is worthwhile if high impact exercise is not possible. (4) Satterwhite Chiropractic agrees with the researchers’ bottom-line: exercise is a reasonable 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 included Cox® Technic spinal manipulation as well as exercise for appreciated relief by his patient.
