Headaches Are NOT Normal

Hey everybody, Dr. Ellison from the chiropractor at Castlebury. When patients come in for the first time, we take a full uh, or complete history on them, and we ask them what brought them in, what symptoms they might be experiencing, how those symptoms might be affecting their life. And so on, and at the end of the conversation we’ll always ask, is there anything else that’s that bothers you?

Most often people will say, I get those normal headaches. And when we ask, what do you mean by normal? They say once a week or a few times a month, or even multiple times a week. And to most people, they think headaches are normal. I’m here to tell you that headaches are far from normal. They are a symptom.

Just like anything else, it’s the body’s way of expressing itself, telling us that something isn’t quite right, and so there’s at least 80% of the population out there are suffering from headaches at least once a month, if not more. And yet they think there’s nothing they can really do about it. But you’ll hear thing people say, maybe I just don’t drink enough water, which is possibly the case, or I slept wrong, or something like that.

But to have that consistent of a symptom for so many years, it’s usually something a lot more than just dehydration or sleeping wrong. And the one thing I can tell you, it’s not a deficiency of aspirin or Tylenol. That’s not the problem either. Most people that have headaches also have what are known as subluxations or misalignments in the upper part of their neck that put pressure on the brain stem and on the nerve system that affect the function.

Of how the blood flows into the head. And that can, in many cases cause headaches. And so when we start taking care of these people that came in for something completely different, one of the things that will happen for them at least 95% of the time, is that they will say. Wow, their headaches have gone away, or at the very least, greatly reduced.

So if you are someone that suffers from headaches or you know somebody that suffers from headaches and you think it’s normal or you’ve tried other treatments or medications or things and they just keep coming back, maybe you should give chiropractic a try. So give us a call. We’d love to see you and and to see if those headaches are caused by misalignments in the spine.

And if they are, we can definitely help. We’ll see you soon