"How You Can Eliminate Your Headache By Getting To the Cause."

Headaches occur in millions of people everyday.  If you suffer from one, you know how they can affec the quality of your life.  Popping a pill, stretching, and getting a massage can all help alleviate the symptoms temporarily; but none of them get to the cause.

The most common type of headache is a tension headache.  This type of headache originates from namely from stress: postural and chemical.  Dr. Dingsor at Watertown Chiropractic specializes in the treatment of this type of headache.  Many patients from Watertown, SD and the surrounding area come to see him for his special knowledge in this area.

Posture plays a big role in the cause of headaches.  If you sit at a desk all day or stand in one place all day performing the same task for eight to ten hours per day, you may be putting a tremendous amount of stress on you joints and muscles.  This leads to changes over time causing certain postural muscles to shorten and other muscles to lengthen.  If you take your hands and can feel tension and tender points in the fleshy area that connects your neck to your shoulder (the upper trapezius muscle) and notice you have rounded forward shoulders you may have what's called upper crossed syndrome. 

Upper crossed syndrome was first described by professor Janda.  He found that most neck, shoulder, mid-back, and headaches problems can stem from this syndrome.  If you have tight chest muscles, tight upper shoudlers, and tight muscles at the base of your neck; you probably have this syndrome. 

This type of postural problems puts tremendous stress on the joints and the nervous system leading to headaches and other problems.  Headaches are usually the result of other multiple problems:  TMJ pain, whiplish, shoulder injuries.

Treatment

Dr. Dingsor specializes in treating headaches through eliminating the tension in the tight muscles and the restrictions in the key joints.  Then he will teach you how to stretch certain key muscles and strengthen other muscles to help prevent or minimize the chance of it coming back. 

Now if you return to doing something 8-10 hours per day that causes the problem, you may have period flare-ups.  But these can be minimized by teaching you the exercises and having periodic check-ups through adjusting the spine.

Dr. Bryan Dingsor is the owner of Watertown Chiropractic P.C. in Watertown, SD. He specializes in the treatment of many musculoskeletal conditions and weight loss. For an appointment, please call 605-882-2304 Today.