HEADACHES

Chiropractic and Acupuncture Are Evidence-based Treatment Methods for Treating Certain Types of Headaches.

Headaches frequently encountered in practice are:

Cervicogenic Headache (generated from neck facet joints and suboccipital muscles)

Classical/Non-Classical Migraine

Tension Headache

Some of the known triggers:

Certain types of foods such as cheese, alcohol, caffeine-based products, artificial sweeteners.

Weather: changes in pressure or hot weather may trigger a headache.

Stress: work-related stress or domestic stress.

Exercise: Jogging and Sex may trigger headaches.

Meats: certain deli meats may cause headaches due to nitrates and tyramines.

Eyestrain: One of the most common types of headaches.

Dehydration/Hypoglycaemia: Another very common type of headache due to not drinking enough water and not keeping blood sugar constant.

If you have any of these signs and symptoms see your NHS GP straight away:

A sudden severe headache accompanied by a stiff neck

A severe headache accompanied by correlated by fever nausea and vomiting

“Worse ever” headache feeling of being hit over head by a baseball bat accompanied by confusion, weakness, double vision or loss of consciousness.

Recurring headaches in children

Following head injury or trauma

A headache and loss of sensation and weakness in any body part which could be the sign of a stroke

Associated with convulsions

Shortness of breath and headache

Two or more headaches per week

Persistent headache in over 50 year old or in somebody who has not had headaches previously

New headaches in someone with history of cancer or HIV

We take special care to listen to you and see where your headaches originate. Dr Jonathan Grendelmeier has helped many headache sufferers and has testimonials to that effect.

The first step is to establish the cause of the headache so that the right treatment can be delivered.