Headaches afflict many people, be it at work, home or out with friends.
The causes of headaches can be many ranging from the more common secondary to dehydration, drinking alcohol (leads to dehydrating the body), eye strain (working too long in one sitting on a computer, or maybe need your prescription changing), stress is possibly one of the most common over looked. On the more concerning side there are stroke and brain tumours, however rare these are many a patient will usually present after a number of years if not months thinking they do and part of my job is to reassure them they don't (and if I do refer them on immediately).
Some common things that can be done to help with headaches is assess your posture and the position of your neck. For this reason we have a posture class at our centre in Billericay, Essex once a month.
Keeping a 500ml or 1 ltr water bottle with you at work will be a visual aid to stimulate to sip water regularly to hydrate. In addition limiting your tea and coffee intake will also help. I suggest patients supplement their hot drinks with boiling water and a slice of lemon. Ok its not the same as coffee, but would you rather have a debilitating headaches instead?
The most important thing however first is really to rule out the sinister headaches (which are usually sharp, onset in seconds, stabbing, make worse with postural changes, unexplained weight loss, malaise, nausea, slurred speak with weakness to an entire arm, leg or one side of the body).
We perform a detailed examination and report of findings on every patient we see to identify if they are a chiropractic patient, if we can help, how long it will take and how much it will cost them. We find most people can be helped with chiropractic care, and do get help.
Contact us today for more information or even if you just have a question we will be happy to help 01277 631 025.
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