by Dr. David Lee, D.C. | May 24, 2012 | Auto Accident Injuries, Chiropractic Care, Headaches, Lower Back Pain, Neck Pain |
Chiropractic Care MN | Neck Injury Having an auto accident is bad enough, dealing with the car damage, the insurance, the loss of work, but on top of that, you are in terrible pain. What if you are not in pain? Whether you are sore or not, you should get checked out immediately. What if the pain doesn’t set in until a week or even a month after? Whiplash can be a very serious injury. Chiropractic Care Can Help On The Road To Recovery We can help you with that. We find out what is the source of your pain, and we come up with a personalized treatment plan that gets you the fastest relief of pain, using natural remedies, and chiropractic solutions. You need a doctor that specialized in Whiplash or other Auto Accident Injuries. Sometimes your injuries can take weeks or months to set in. Chiropractors are trained and can help you with injuries that may not have any symptoms right away. Possible Symptoms From Auto Accidents: • Whiplash • Neck Pain • Stiffness • Headaches • Lower Back Pain • Shoulder Pain • Trouble Sleeping • Dizziness • Ringing in the ears • Blurred Vision You don’t have to be frustrated with the “unknown”, we will listen to you, and take x-rays and come up with a complete treatment plan that will be the most beneficial to you and your injury needs. We use a healthy natural approach using Eastern Chinese Therapies. We do more than just treat the immediate issue, we follow through with your treatments, making sure to completely correct the issue. At Achieve Health Chiropractic & Acupuncture we realize that our therapies are...
by Dr. David Lee, D.C. | Nov 1, 2011 | Chiropractic Care, Headaches, Migraines |
Chiropractic Treatment For Headaches One third of Americans suffer from tension headaches. These headaches can be felt on both sides of the head as a dull, steady pain that often becomes intense at the end of the day. Unfortunately, traditional medicine has little to offer chronic headache sufferers. Pain medicine and muscle relaxants will ease the pain. Stress reduction, relaxation and exercise can improve wellness and perhaps prevent the occurrence of the headache. For half a century, the American Medical Association waged war against chiropractic, an intervention that relies on spinal adjustments to treat health problems. Chiropractors were regarded as the modern-day equivalent of snake-oil salesmen. Today, chiropractors are the third largest group of health care providers, after physicians and dentists, who treat patients directly. AMA policy now states that it is ethical for physicians not only to associate professionally with chiropractors but also to refer patients to them for diagnostic or therapeutic services. In order to be called a Doctor of Chiropractic Medicine (DC), practitioners must graduate from one of the 16 chiropractic schools currently accredited by the Council on Chiropractic Education. compares basic science education between chiropractic and medical schools. Before chiropractors can practice, they must be licensed by their state. All states require them to pass the National Chiropractic Board examination. Chiropractic services are covered by most health insurance plans, including Medicare. However, conflict between the chiropractic and medical communities continues over such issues as limitations on insurance reimbursements for chiropractic services and allowing health care providers other than chiropractors to do spinal adjustments. Prior to 1990, very little was known about chiropractic care in terms of...
by Dr. David Lee, D.C. | Oct 27, 2011 | Headaches, Migraines |
Chiropractic Treatment of Headaches Headaches can range from annoying to debilitating and their cause can be benign or life threatening. The majority of headaches is benign and is caused by dehydration, muscle spasms, stress or vertebral misalignments. It is important to know what type of headache you are suffering from prior to prescribing a type of treatment. If you are suffering from a dehydration headache, all the aspirin in the world won’t decrease your pain. Headaches can also be caused by serious conditions such as tumors; therefore you need to speak with a healthcare practitioner if your headaches last longer than a week. The following is a brief description of the most common types of headache classifications: Tension Headaches Description: Tension type headaches are the most common, affecting upwards of 75% of all headache sufferers as many as 90% of adults have had tension–type headaches. Tension–type headaches usually involve a steady ache, rather than a throbbing one, are described as a feeling of pressure or tightening, may last minutes to days, affect both sides of the head, and do not worsen with routine physical activity. It may also be accompanied by photophobia or phonophobia (hypersensitivity to light and noise, respectively.). Nausea is usually absent. Some people get tension–type (and migraine) headaches in response to stressful events. Tension–type headaches may also be chronic, occurring frequently or daily. Psychological factors have been overemphasized as causes of headaches. Rebound Headache: Rebound headache may occur among people with tension–type headaches, as well as in those with migraines. It appears to be the result of taking prescription or nonprescription pain relievers daily or almost...
by Dr. David Lee, D.C. | Oct 4, 2011 | Chiropractic Care, Headaches |
Chiropractic Treatment of Headaches Headaches can range from annoying to debilitating and their cause can be benign or life threatening. The majorities of headaches are benign and are caused by dehydration, muscle spasms, stress or vertebral misalignments. It is important to know what type of headache you are suffering from prior to prescribing a type of treatment. If you are suffering from a dehydration headache, all the aspirin in the world won’t decrease your pain. Headaches can also be caused by serious conditions such as tumors; therefore you need to speak with a healthcare practitioner if your headaches last longer than a week. The following is a brief description of the most common types of headache classifications. Tension Headaches: Description: Tension type headaches are the most common, affecting upwards of 75% of all headache sufferers. As many as 90% of adults have had tension–type headaches. Tension–type headaches usually involve a steady ache, rather than a throbbing one, are described as a feeling of pressure or tightening, may last minutes to days, affect both sides of the head, and do not worsen with routine physical activity. It may also be accompanied by photophobia or phonophobia (hypersensitivity to light and noise, respectively.). Nausea is usually absent. Some people get tension–type (and migraine) headaches in response to stressful events. Tension–type headaches may also be chronic, occurring frequently or daily. Psychological factors have been overemphasized as causes of headaches. Rebound Headache: Description: Rebound headache may occur among people with tension–type headaches, as well as in those with migraines. It appears to be the result of taking prescription or nonprescription pain relievers daily or...
by Dr. David Lee, D.C. | Sep 29, 2011 | Chiropractic Care, Headaches |
Chiropractic Treatments for Migraines and Cluster Headaches Few of the millions who get occasional headaches have it as bad as the migraine sufferer. Far from being a minor annoyance these headaches can ruin lives. The migraine is a special type of headache-a vascular headache (as opposed to the more common tension headache). A migraine includes a collection of symptoms (a syndrome) that appear before the headache pain itself hits. Migraines and Cluster Headaches Examples are: spots, lines or colored lights before the eyes, redness, swelling, tearing, muscle contraction, hallucinations, irritability, depression, numbness, constipation or diarrhea, and sometimes even a feeling of well-being! As the warning symptoms leave the headache itself hits. It may range in severity from minor discomfort to immobilizing agony and may last from minutes to days. A few of the most common expressions of it are: The pain most likely occurs on only one side of the head. Nausea and vomiting are usually associated with it. The throbbing eventually evolves into a dull steady pain The Migraine Headache The migraine is different from tension headaches because tension headaches usually involve the whole head, start suddenly and only include nausea and vomiting if it becomes very severe. Also, migraines affect more women than men, and usually begin after puberty. The cause of migraines is not known. Because other members of the family may also have headache problems, some researchers believe migraines may have a hereditary component. But there are many things you inherit from your parents that have no genetic component which may be related to headache formation: how you deal with stress, anger and tension and...
by Dr. David Lee, D.C. | May 17, 2011 | Chiropractic Care, Headaches |
Chiropractic – The Natural Way To Ease Headache Pain A growing number of patients are finding that Chiropractic care is a very safe and effective non-medicinal option that has helped millions of Americans find relief from persistent pain. Research shows that spinal manipulation, which is the most common therapeutic procedure performed by doctors of chiropractic, is an effective treatment option for tension headaches and headaches that originate in the neck. A report released in 2001 by researchers at the Duke University Evidence-Based Practice Center in Durham, N.C., found that spinal manipulation resulted in almost immediate improvement for those headaches that originate in the neck, and had significantly fewer side effects and longer-lasting relief of tension-type headaches than many commonly prescribed medications. Also, doctors of chiropractic are trained to recommend therapeutic and rehabilitative exercises, as well as to provide nutritional, dietary and lifestyle counseling—all of which are important components in the management of chronic headache pain. When it comes to managing headache pain, there is no magic solution that works for everyone, but chiropractic care is certainly an effective treatment option every patient should keep in mind. Chiropractic Research – The Duke Study Duke study finds chiropractic treatment best for headaches! McCrory DC, et al. “Evidence Report: Behavioral and Physical Treatments for Tension-type and Cervicogenic Headache.” Duke University Evidence-Based Practice Center, Durham, North Carolina, January 2001. Based on a literature review of several headache treatment options, a panel of 19 multidisciplinary experts concluded that spinal manipulation resulted in almost immediate improvement for cervicogenic headaches and had significantly fewer side effects and longer-lasting relief of tension-type headache than a commonly-prescribed medication....
