Newport Beach Chiropractor: Why Chiropractic Can Rid You of Your Heaches!

Headaches are a common complaint to chiropractors, neurologists, and migraine specialist. Patients with headaches seek chiropractic care specifically because they find manipulation or adjustments applied to the cervical spine and upper back region are highly effective in reducing the intensity, frequency and duration of the headache pain. This is done without any medication, or invasive therapies.

The reason that manipulations to the neck area can help headaches and more specifically migraine headaches is because the cervical spine / neck, is often the origin of the headache as the three nerves in the upper neck pass through the neck muscles in route to the the head. When the muscles of the neck are in spasm, the nerves get "pinched" or squeezed by the overly tight muscles resulting in headache pain.