7-21 Headaches, Migraines and Manual Therapy Approaches

Headaches and Integrative Manual Therapy
    For hundreds of year people have rubbed areas of pain and tension. This issue of The Burnham Review looks at the evidence that manual therapy, reflex pressure points and touch have a positive effect on headaches, including tension headaches, cluster headaches, cervicogenic headaches, medication rebound headaches and migraines.

Migraines
    Stress, food allergies, neuroendocrine imbalances and nutritional deficiencies all may contribute to migraine attacks. Many nutritional and botanical therapies aim to reduce migraine incidence by decreasing platelet aggregation and preventing the release of vasoactive neurotransmitters, and by avoiding triggering foods. 
    A variety of physical approaches can be beneficial to migraine patients, including biofeedback, physical therapy, stress management, acupuncture, and spinal manipulation.
    It is believed migraine sufferers do not encounter more stress than headache-free individuals; rather, over-responsiveness to stress appears to be the issue. Thus, lessening response to stress with the use of techniques such as biofeedback, meditation, yoga, and hypnosis may be effective.(Sinclair,1999)............Buy This Issue Today

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