By Darcy Gautreau In traditional medicine, most headaches are attended by the person taking pharmaceutical products to ease or eliminate the pain. There are many potential risks and issues associated with this approach so some individuals seek out safer alternatives. A Cambridge chiropractor has a cache of techniques and methods at their disposal that can provide relief naturally. Pharmaceutical drugs taken for headache pain typically do nothing more than deliver a few hours of temporary relief, without any intent to correct the problem. Both prescription grade and over the counter medications are known to generally cause side effects such as nausea, dizziness, liver damage and more. This results in the individual taking additional medicines to address the new issues which is a cycle that continues to spiral. Every day, more people choose to get off of the pharmaceutical carousel and begin seeking natural alternatives. In chiropractic care, there are multiple techniques of that so...
Yoga and Migraine Headaches
by Baxter We’ve had a few different requests over the past months to talk about the condition of migraine headaches and how yoga might be helpful in addressing them. So Nina and I are splitting up the topic into two focuses. Tomorrow Nina will share with you some ideas around yoga as a possible preventative strategy for migraine headaches (see Preventing Migraines and Other Headaches, Part 1 and Part 2), and today I will tackle the use of yoga during a migraine attack. And we might even get Brad to weigh in on the topic, as he lectures to the pharmacology students at UCSF on medications used to treat migraines. As we talked about the subject during a recent meal, he shared an opinion about treating acute headache attacks with yoga. “F#*k the yoga,” he joked, “Take the drugs!” As he may go into in more detail here later this week, he feels the modern abortive migraine meds are so effective that it might be foolish to not take them, as migraines can take the sufferer out of circulation f...