Headache Pain Sufferers, Plano TX Chiropractor Dr. Khayal Has Solutions

Had any headache pain recently, you're not alone, 1 out of every 6 people living in the United States suffers from chronic headaches. As a business owner and chiropractor at Premier Health Clinic here in Plano, TX, I used to have a lot of headaches like new patients who come to see me for back or neck pain issues. This led me to develop expertise in diagnosing and treating different types of headaches with chiropractic. Now headaches are a thing of the past and when I visit with my patients they are quite surprised to learn that I treat various types of headache pain through chiropractic care. Many patients I've visited with really have a lot of misconceptions about what a chiropractor does.

Sadly, my patients are like the majority of the people in America who have suffered for months and even years with headache pain because all their physician and specialist offered was drugs and more drugs. Medication is like a band aid it dulls the pain but will not treat the cause, which is why the headache returns.

Besides treating chronic headaches, I also offer chiropractic care that is quite effective in treating tension headaches. Past studies have found that individuals undergoing chiropractic therapy for tension headaches showed sustained reduction in headache frequency and severity compared with patients who took prescribed drugs directed at tension headaches.

The findings in these studies indicate that chiropractic care is not actually therapy or treatment, but rather targeting the root cause of the problem. Simply put your body effects a correction that resolves the primary cause of the headache which in turn extends lasting results beyond the initial care.

As I mentioned earlier, a majority of my patients think of me as a back doctor. Something society has branded all chiropractors with, which is both good and bad. Over the last few years there has be continual supportive documentation that proves chiropractic is also effective in the treatment of headaches originating from spinal issues, migraines and cluster headaches. In fact, the American Chiropractic Association reports that more than 15 percent of the public who see chiropractors presently go for headaches.

Even as the number of people seeking chiropractic care for headaches increases, the majority of people in America continue to use their family physician as the primary source of treatment for their headaches with little or no success.

Six of the most common misconceptions about headache relief have been listed below. See if you identify with any of them.

1. Over-The-Counter Medication Treat The Cause Of Your Headache.
"Drugs only mask the pain. If the drugs you buy or are prescribed, treated the real cause, your headaches would go away permanently. None of us were born with too few Tylenol in our system. A lack of drugs is not the cause."

2. Headache Medication Can't Harm You.
"On the contrary, drugs can cause side effects that can be far worse than the headache pain you're trying to relieve. People find it hard to believe that you can cause internal damage to your body if you take too much ibuprofen over a period of time. Yet it is sold over the counter with no restrictions."

3. Stress Is The Major Cause For Headaches.
"Stress is a part of everyone's life; it is not the cause of headaches. Rather it's how your body adjusts to stress that affects your health. Chiropractic care can provide ways to help you increase your body's ability to adjust to stress of any kind."

4. Headaches Will Always Go Away On Their Own.
"Without treating the cause, or root of the problem, they won't, they'll continue to come back and possibly more frequently."

5. Your Family Doctors Know How To Treat Headaches.
"If this was true, family doctors would have fewer patients and the pharmaceutical companies would have a lot less profit. Can you imagine what would happen if no one ever suffered from headaches. Chiropractors do have solutions that don't involve drugs or invasive treatments."

6. Your Problem Is Always Where Your Pain Is.
"In fact, not all headaches originate in the head. For instance, a person who suffered a neck injury from a car accident, playing sports, or a fall as a child, could suffer head pain later on. These are called cervicogenic headaches because they result from tension of the neck and head muscles."

As an experienced Chiropractor, I have great success in treating headaches because most headaches are either soft tissue or neurologic in nature. Also, a significant portion of headaches originate in the tissues of the neck. And since chiropractic care focuses treatment on the soft tissues of the spine, which includes the neck, the majority of headaches can be successfully managed with appropriate adjustments and therapy. Best of all, chiropractic procedures consist of only safe, natural, and noninvasive therapies that focus on correcting the cause of headaches, and not simply the short-term masking of symptoms.

If you would like to learn more about treatments for your headaches or have other questions, please contact my office for a free consultation. We treat patients from Plano, Dallas, Addison, Frisco, and all over the metroplex. You can reach us on our website: www.premierhealthclinic.net or call us directly at 972-713-9355. I thank you and your back will thank you. Dr. H. Khayal, DC.