If you suffer from headaches, you're not alone.  Over 50 million of us experience some form of a severe headache at some point in our lives.  Whether you experience  minor head pain or severe migraines, headaches can take valuable time out of your day and your life, and leave you searching for relief. 

 

One way to seek relief is by reaching for drugs and other medications.  This is fine for the short run, and can help you get out of pain fast.  Unfortunately, a common headache medications don't address the "root" cause(s), and when used over long periods of time, can cause unwanted side effects.

 

Acupuncture, Chiropractic, and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) offer a safe and effective approach to relieving headache pain, without causing harmful side effects and incorporate a comprehensive diagnostic protocol that can help your doctor understand an address "root" causes(s) of your headaches.

 

Understanding headaches types. There are many factors in TCM theory that may play a key role in the root causes(s) of a headache.  These include body constitution, emotional health, excessive work, social and exercise activities, improper diet, physical trauma and pregnancy.  Headaches can also be diagnosed according to specific symptoms, times of occurrence, location on the body, type of pain, triggers and remedies which provide relief.

 

A natural path to relief. Your doctor take a holistic or whole-body approach to health.  Your doctor will take a detailed health history, and perform a physical exam to determine how and why your body's vital energy, or Qi, is out of balance, and what root causes are contributing to the overall problem. This will allow him or her to identity  the type of headaches you are experiencing , and identifying and treating the underlying causes, not just the symptoms, apply the most effective care.

 

Below are a few ways that  you can participate in your own healing, by making simple lifestyle changes that my help soothe- or even prevent- head pain: