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HEADACHES

What Puts The Ache In Headache? The ache in headache does not come from your brain-your brain cannot feel pain. During brain surgery a patient is often wide awake feeling nothing, even talking to the surgeons and nurses while his/her brain is being operated on (a local anesthetic numbs the scalp). So what puts the "ache" in headache? It's the non-brain structures: blood vessels, membranes, and cranial nerves in the brain and skull. When these structures are stretched, compressed, irritated, inflamed or infected, headaches often result.

Why do millions of headache sufferers turn to the natural, drug-free chiropractic approach to health? That's because chiropractic has a unique healing approach. Chiropractors are the only health professionals trained to analyze your body for a serious and often ignored condition that can damage your nerves, cause tissue inflammation, cause muscles to tighten and knot, weaken your body, cause fatigue and set the stage for sickness and disease. This condition is called the vertebral subluxation complex (VSC). Just as you may have a cavity in your tooth and be unaware of the damage it's causing, so the VSC (or subluxation) may be causing serious harm to your body-sometimes for years-without your knowledge. What exactly is a VSC? It is a tiny distortion or misalignment in your spine that stresses your nervous system, the system that controls your body. What causes the VSC? Any physical or emotional stress that your body cannot withstand can cause your spine to develop a VSC.

For many years it has been said that the DC after a Doctor of Chiropractic's name also stands for "Doctor of Cause"-chiropractors correct the cause of a patient's health problems, rather than give pain killers and other drugs which only treat the symptoms. A team of surgeons may have found one of the answers as to why chiropractic works so well. They discovered small neck muscle can that connects to brain membranes. When the neck is out of alignment, this muscle can actually pull on the brain! As the lead surgeon writes: "An increasing body of literature relates headaches to pathology affecting the cervical spine and a number of clinical trials have demonstrated that chiropractic.is valuable for managing headaches"

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