Battle Ground Back and Neck Pain

Headaches and Migraines

Migraine headaches afflict many people.  They can affect people from the very young to the very old.

They can affect YOU, a co-worker or even a spouse or a close friend.

Migraine symptoms include ‘severe pain’ on one side or your head that can last for days and can include nausea and sensitivity to light.

While many medical treatments address the symptoms, we address the cause of your headache pain.

We view migraines as something that is caused by pressure on sensitive nerve endings in you head, resulting from a chemical imbalance in the brain.

Since your brain controls the entire body’s function by communication through your nervous system, any interference to this communication affects your body.  If any spinal bones, which protect the nerves, get misaligned, there is a NEGATIVE effect on your body’s systems.

Muscles attached to your spinal bones overreact and become ‘spastic and irritated’ because your nerves are pulled on a compressed, then stretched and then they can become traumatized.

Headache pain can easily result from these imbalances.

By making sure your vertebrae are moving correctly, and not locked into place by your muscles, the muscles that support your head are then relieved of stress and spasms.

Your pain will then become diminished as the structure of your spinal bones of the neck is improved.

Don’t wait.  Your health is a serious matter.  If you take medication to cover it up, you’ll always have headaches. 

Don’t put your body through this trauma.  Call the office today.  The longer you wait, the harder it is to give you relief. 

Why all the Fuss?

          Don’t overlook your pain, no matter how small.  Back and neck pain are subjective which means you have to tell me what you pain feels like.  PAIN is important because it tells you…something is wrong.  Covering it up does not help the problem.   When you come to the office we will do definitive tests that can measure and diagnose your pain.  Therefore, it falls on you to communicate your pain symptoms to us.

          By accurately noting your pain symptoms, and giving us a clear picture of them, you are taking an important step toward getting diagnosis.  Here are some things to note: Pain intensity and Type of pain.

Pain Intensity

How bad does it hurt?  Pain intensity is a measure of how strong your pain is and these are important to us as only you can tell how much pain you are in.

As a pain sufferer, this is probably the most important part of the ordeal for you.  Intensity levels fluctuate, so it is impossible to get a useful, accurate measurement of them from our testing.  Instead, we use visual assessment tools and sometimes questionnaires to help you communicate our level of pain so we can do everything to help you as fast as we can.

Types of Pain

The types of painful feelings you have in your back or neck are an indication of what is going on in your spine.  This is a very important part of your care.  For example, if you experience burning, stabbing, or electrical sensations down one leg or arm, it probably indicates a very ‘irritated’ nerve.  I know you probably know what a tooth ache feels like, or even someone pinching you, but ALL pain is related to your nervous system.

If your muscles feel stiff or tight you may have pain due to an injury, or posture problems, or both.  Don’t Wait!  Get checked if you have any pain because pain is the last sign there is a problem, not the first.

Doctors are reporting a “steep rise” in the number of young children with kidney stones, according anecdotal data cited by The New York Times.“In China recently, many children who drank milk tainted with melamine–a toxic chemical illegaly added to watered-down milk to inflate the protein count– developed kidney stones,” the paper says.  “The increase in the United States is attributed to a host of factors, including a food additive that is both legal and ubiquitous:salt.”

Experts say children are consuming too much salt and too little water.They also blame ‘obesity’ for the increase in the number of pediatric kidney stone cases that doctors are seeing across the USA.

“The incidence of kidney stones in adults has also been rising, especially in women, and experts say they see more adults in their 20’s and 30’s with stones; in the past, it was more common in adults in their 40’s and 50’s,” the paper says.

Are your children drinking enough good pH water?  If not you need to think about what you’re feeding them and letting them drink.

Their health depends on your choices.