Headaches & Chiropractic
We often recognize emotional stress as a cause of headaches. Our emotions are locked into our vital hormone system and regulated by our glands and nervous system. Emotional stress will cause tension to our muscles and deprive our system of essential nutrients that maintain the strength of ligament and muscles supporting the spinal column.

Headaches may indicate a problem within the structural elements of the neck and back. There may be a subluxated (misaligned) vertebra which has slipped into an abnormal position, causing pressure that shows up as a headache.

The nervous system is centered in the brain and spinal cord, the most delicate portions of the body. The nervous system controls, regulates and coordinates all of the other systems of the body. These impulses may be impeded or distorted by a slight dislocation or subluxation of the spinal vertebrae, pressing on the nerves where they leave the spine to travel throughout the body. When this happens, the part of the body controlled by those distorted nerve impulses does not function properly.

Headaches are often attributed to allergies. The only real cure for allergy is to get rid of the weakness that produced it. It is necessary to strengthen the body’s natural defenses by restoring the ability of the nerve impulses to keep the body functioning normally.

The body has its own powerful allies to defend it against foreign substances that invade it. The white corpuscles, lymph system, when in good working order, can protect against all but the most powerful drugs and allergens. These defense mechanisms are kept in order by the nervous system.

Doctors of chiropractic specialize in the evaluation and nonsurgical, drug free treatment of structural imbalances in the body. Special emphasis is put on the spine and its effect on the nervous system.