Migraine is a debilitating
condition for its sufferers. It’s expensive in terms of
pain, money, and pharmacological use necessity. Drugs are still
the “gold standard” of care. Patients often request choices from their
migraine healthcare providers for non-drug options.
Severna Park migraine sufferers want alternative ideas!
Back And Neck Care Center suggests that exercise may be one
such useful choice.
EXERCISE FOR CHRONIC PAIN
Migraine is, for most Severna Park migraine sufferers,
a chronic pain condition. It is not typically a one and done situation. Chronic pain disrupts
the nervous system as well as the specific pain-generating
issue. Researchers described evidence that exercise helps a
variety of chronic pain conditions including migraine directly and indirectly
with an aim to change the cycle of pain,
sedentariness, and declining disability. These
changes don’t emerge overnight. They come with
long-term, regular, individualized exercise resulting
in improvement in pain and function. (1) Back And Neck Care Center reminds
our Severna Park chiropractic patients with all types of
conditions that it is slow and steady commitment that results in desired
outcomes.
EXERCISE FOR MIGRAINE BEING STUDIED
Researchers and migraine sufferers alike hold out hope for an easy, inexpensive approach to migraine care. Case in point, a recent comparison study of
neck-specific exercise set against sham ultrasound to reduce
the frequency and intensity of migraine attacks. (2) A new meta-analysis
in Headache reported that aerobic exercise for migraine patients
decreased the number of migraine days. (3) These are beneficial
outcomes for Severna Park migraine treatment.
EXERCISE BENEFITS: Overall and Migraine Specific
Severna Park chiropractic patients are manytimes
urged to exercise. Exercise appears to be a endorsed
panacea for everything from back pain to migraine to depression to neck pain
and so much more. Why? It works. Exercise stifles inflammation
via reduction of inflammatory modulators (many cytokines) and stress hormones
(growth hormone and cortisol). Exercise positively influences
the microvascular system that certainly influences
a certain type of cortical spreading depression. Specific
to migraine, exercise benefited migraine self-efficacy by permitting
the migraine sufferer to have a sense of control which lessened
migraine burden. How much exercise does this?
“Sufficiently rigorous aerobic exercise” brought about statistically
significant decrease in migraine frequency, intensity and
duration. That’s welcomed by Severna Park
migraine sufferers! Of course, higher intensity exercise appears
to allow more benefit. Pharmacological drugs like topiramate were
reported to be better than exercise, but adding exercise to its use was suggested to be beneficial. Migraine sufferers
who also experience neck pain or tension headache are reported as
benefiting from exercise. Low impact is valuable
if high impact exercise is not doable. (4) Back And Neck Care Center agrees
with the researchers’ bottom-line: exercise is a reasonable
evidence-based recommendation for migraine prevention.
CONTACT Back And Neck Care Center
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. David Kulla on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he presents
how he followed The
Cox®
Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his patient with
migraine which incorporated Cox® Technic spinal manipulation
as well as exercise for welcomed relief by his patient.