By Carl Weber
Are you sick and tired of getting headaches?
Have you had enough of that nausea, that pressure and that pounding? Do you sometimes feel like you have a vise clamped around your head? Have you had enough head pain or migraine for one lifetime?
Are you taking Tylenol, Aspirin or Ibuprofen regularly, even though you know they only give short term relief and don’t get to the cause? Do you ever panic as you leave the house wondering if you have enough medication along for your day, your weekend or your trip? Did you know that regular use of these over the counter medications can lead to stomach, kidney and liver damage?
Did you know that headaches and migraines can be caused by irritations of the spine and its related nerves? They can arise from irritation of your head and neck muscles, sinuses, scalp, skull, blood vessels, temporomandibular joints (TMJ), and coverings of the brain and spinal cord (known as the dura). Each of these tissues’ functions is related to the spine and its spinal nerves via the trigeminocervical complex. Because the structure of your spine affects all of the above tissues that cause headaches, it’s possible to help you by getting to the cause, the interference in your spine.
You don’t have to live with headaches. You don’t have to compromise your work energy, family energy, or play energy because of the presence or impending threat of headache. Nor should you have to chronically medicate yourself, thereby stressing out your liver and kidneys as they attempt to detoxify these chemical compounds.
A chiropractor can tell if they can help you by checking your spine and nervous system for interference that we call subluxations. Are you sick and tired of getting headaches? Is it time for you to try a fresh approach, a natural approach? If not now, when?
Aloha and peace.
Dr. Carl Weber, B.P.E. (Hon), DC, is a chiropractor at Lake Cowichan Chiropractic, 85 Darnell Rd. Contact them at 250-749-3393 or check the out on the internet at www.lakecowichanchiropractic.com.