The kids are screaming, you’ve had less than 4 hours of sleep, your work deadline is approaching fast and you haven’t had time for yourself in weeks! To add insult to injury, now you have a raging headache blasting away at your skull like a jackhammer…how are you going to make it through the day?

It’s time to pull the trigger on your pre-set plan to stop this headache dead in its tracks and get back to feeling human again. You need the Headache Survival Guide!

WHAT IS A HEADACHE?

Headaches are one of the MOST common types of pain experienced by the population with 90% experiencing a headache at some point in their lives, 13% in the past year, and 3% suffering from chronic and debilitating headaches.

A headache is defined as pain arising from the structures and tissues that surround the upper neck, brain, and skull.

Types of headaches include migraines, cluster, tension, and 14 other classifications, while the pain can be throbbing, sharp, dull, aching, constant, intense, or mild.

Regardless of type or character, one thing remains true… HEADACHES SUCK!

YOUR HEADACHE SURVIVAL GUIDE

Here are five things you can start doing right away to reduce your headache pain and stop the suffering. Let the healing begin!

Drink Water

This sounds too good to be true. “I can get rid of this throbbing headache by just drinking some water?”

Yes.

In fact, one CBS news report claims up to 75% of the American population could be chronically dehydrated.

When you experience a loss of fluid, the brain itself can shrink and pull away from the skull causing irritation to the structures and pain in your head.

Once re-hydrated, the brain returns to normal and the headache disappears.

Take a Nap

In addition to all of the other benefits of napping, like more energy, better moods, and enhanced memory, participants in some studies have noted that going to sleep was the MOST effective strategy for reducing or resolving a headache.

Get Your Spine Checked

A cerviocogenic headache is characterized by pain perceived in the head but from a source in the tissues of the neck. Those sources could include the discs, ligaments, soft tissues, and blood vessels.

Distortion in the spinal column can exist for years affecting all of these components without presenting any symptoms…much like a cavity can deteriorate a tooth without causing pain.

The best way to determine if a structural problem could be contributing to your headaches is via a detailed analysis by a Life By Design Chiropractor.

Break a Sweat

It’s a common myth that you shouldn’t exercise when you have a headache.

Truthfully, I think it gets perpetuated as more of an excuse than anything else as running around and lifting weights are probably not high on the list when you feel like garbage.

However, if you can muster up the will power, exercise releases endorphins which are the body’s natural painkillers. They can help you reduce the severity of most headaches and impact the frequency of your future episodes.

Eat Well

It’s not new to attempt to reduce headaches by removing food “triggers”, however, it makes more sense to approach nutrition with respect to headaches from a different perspective.

Eating By Design naturally leads to a lower inflammatory response which means less irritation in the brain and an increased capacity for the body to self-repair.

HOW TO GET STARTED

Start with any or all of these five steps as a guide to survive your headaches and better yet, maybe even get rid of them for good.

Dr. Steven Gall has been offering exceptional chiropractic care to infants, children and adults for over 25 years. He has spent his life learning, and improving his knowledge, skills and ability to provide his care. As a public speaker and health coach he strives to assist people in seeing and attaining a life of extraordinary health. Contact the office to join others who have started the same journey.

Here it comes… the pressure over your left eye, the blurred vision, the feeling like there is a vice squeezing your head and now the throbbing pain has you searching for somewhere to hide.

You are getting another headache.

Luckily this time it’s just a “normal” headache… the kind you seem to get ONLY a couple times a week. That’s so much better than one of those nasty migraine headaches that debilitate you every month!

Of course, they always seem to appear when you have a million things to do and they make every single task exponentially more difficult to complete.

So now comes the most important question:

What are you going to do about it?

Dr. Steven Gall has been offering exceptional chiropractic care to infants, children and adults for over 25 years. He has spent his life learning, and improving his knowledge, skills and ability to provide his care. As a public speaker and health coach he strives to assist people in seeing and attaining a life of extraordinary health. Contact the office to join others who have started the same journey.

Ultimately, one major principle governs our ability to express health or moves us towards sickness and disease – adaptation.

The body’s ability to adapt to its environment is the centerpiece of life and it’s the nerve system that coordinates all the necessary changes, from raising or lowering blood pressure, altering body temperature, activating the immune system to contracting muscles and digesting food for energy.

If we can adapt to the level of stress in our lives, we continue to function at a peak level. If our adaptability decreases, stress begins to overwhelm us and we break down.

Dr. Steven Gall has been offering exceptional chiropractic care to infants, children and adults for over 25 years. He has spent his life learning, and improving his knowledge, skills and ability to provide his care. As a public speaker and health coach he strives to assist people in seeing and attaining a life of extraordinary health. Contact the office to join others who have started the same journey.

Chiropractic is the world’s largest drugless health profession and continues to change and transform millions of lives for the better. However, along the way, a handful of myths have emerged that inhibit people’s understanding and therefore the inclusion of chiropractic into their regular health-creating routine.

Let’s put these misunderstandings to rest and help millions more experience the incredible benefits that come from a clear brain-body connection.

Dr. Steven Gall has been offering exceptional chiropractic care to infants, children and adults for over 25 years. He has spent his life learning, and improving his knowledge, skills and ability to provide his care. As a public speaker and health coach he strives to assist people in seeing and attaining a life of extraordinary health. Contact the office to join others who have started the same journey.