Do you suffer from headaches?
Do you suffer from headaches? Headaches are often classified as migraines or tension headaches, but I often find there’s a combination of causes for headaches which is what makes them so difficult to treat. Osteopathic manipulative therapy along with integrative and functional medicine can be helpful in treating migraines that have been resistant to prior treatments.
This is where integrative and functional medicine come to play. Acupuncture can also be used in conjunction with our other treatment modalities.
Some headaches called rebound headaches are triggered from medication withdrawal and caffeine. Poor sleep, stress, hormonal imbalance, and sometimes food sensitivities can also trigger headaches. Standard medicine generally has one approach for one type of headache and keeps them in separate categories. When headaches have multiple triggers, this categorical treatment often fails as it only addresses one trigger and can leave you in a rapid remission/relapse cycle with medication.
I take a broad approach to evaluating and treating headaches. Together, we look at the whole picture not, just a headache, but the lifestyle as well to determine additional triggers and combination types of headaches.