REDCLIFFE's FAMILY CHIROPRACTIC CLINIC
17 Silvyn Street  REDCLIFFE 4020 Qld
 (07) 3284 2065

 
headache.jpg (11997 bytes) The treatment for a headache depends, of course, on what has presumably caused it. A headache arising from visual problems can often be cured by eyeglasses. A headache caused by infection of the sinuses or ears can be relieved by bringing that infection under control.
        But the most common headaches, including migraine, are usually treated with painkillers or other drugs. The public spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year on headache remedies. Aspirin and aspirin substitutes are usually used for "low intensity" headaches. More powerful compounds, including codeine, ergotamine tartrate, pheneIzine sulphate, and methysergide are given for more severe ones, though with narcotics there is always the risk of dependency or addiction.
The Chiropractic Approach
        Chiropractic is not a glorified aspirin. it is neither a headache therapy nor a treatment for headaches, yet headache sufferers are turning to their neighbourhood chiropractors in record numbers.
        Chiropractors often criticise the standard medical approach for its tendency to treat the
symptoms and not the cause of headaches. They point to people who have been swallowing painkillers for years with no sign of lasting relief. This medicine-taking may mask underlying problems. Further, the constant ingesting of drugs can give rise not only to dependency, but also to dangerous side effects. 
How Can Chiropractic Help?
        Chiropractors are the only healing professionals who are trained to analyse and correct spinal nerve stress, also known as "vertebral subluxations."
Today spinal nerve stress has actually reached epidemic proportions. This condition has been called a "silent killer" because at the same time that it is weakening the body, lowering vitality, and paving the way for diseases, those people who have it are usually entirely unaware of it.