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Headaches and Chiropractic Care

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Hi, I’m Dr. Steven Battaglino with Battaglino Chiropractic and I want to talk today about headaches and chiropractic. Specifically, how chiropractic can help get rid of headaches.

Many headaches are caused in the neck, specifically right at the very top of the neck. So we have vertebrae and the spine here in the neck and this is the base of the skull. We have little nerves that come out of each level in between the vertebrae. When things get out of alignment or crooked and that can happen in a lot of different ways, it can happen from sports injuries or bad posture or bad pillow. When that happens, these nerves get compressed and the nerves at the very top of the spine when they are compressed, it will shoot pain up into the head causing headache.

Now the other thing that happens is that the muscles on the side of the neck will get really tight and try to splint that area and that causes pain as well. With gentle, specific correction of this area, which restores proper alignment, we take pressure off the nerve and the headache goes away and the muscles relax as well.

If you are experiencing headaches on a daily basis or even on a weekly basis, I suggest that you get your neck checked by a qualified chiropractor. It is a much better fix if we can eliminate what is actually causing the problem than to cover it up with drug therapy or injection therapy or something like that.

Neck Pain

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I’m Dr. Steven Battaglino with Battaglino Chiropractic and today I want to talk about neck pain and chiropractic. Chiropractic is really good at getting neck pain and let’s talk about how it works.

Let’s first talk about what’s causing the neck pain. This is the neck. This is the front of the neck or the throat area where you can see different bones here called the vertebrae. There’s a tiny little disk separating each of the bones which acts like little shock absorbers and we can see nerves coming out of the side of the spine at each level. When things get out of place, whether they’re out of place from side to side or whether this curvature from the side view gets distorted, it puts pressure on these nerves and it causes pain. It’s the nerves that are getting compressed plus the muscles that react by going into spasm to protect the area that all causes that pain.

A qualified chiropractor can restore proper alignment and take pressure of those nerves with a gentle specific correction called an adjustment and essentially it relieves pressure on these nerves, the muscles start to relax, and the pain goes away.

It’s a much more effective approach to find out what’s causing the actual pain and remove that cause instead of just covering it up with injection therapy or painkillers or something like that. So if you have any neck pain, call a qualified chiropractor today and get your neck checked.