At The Joint Chiropractic in Sugar House, Utah, we get the opportunity to help a lot
of patients with many different kinds of health concerns. Those health concerns
range from neck or low back pain, to knee or elbow pain, to improved athletic
performance and general overall health. Besides those already listed, many
people seek chiropractic help with their headaches. I often see patients that
have marked headaches on their intake forms. Many times when I asked how often
they experience headaches, They say, "not that often", but when I
press a little bit for more details, they tell me they experience headaches one
or more times a week. Some even have daily headaches.
There are a few different types of headaches. Today I want to
discuss the stress headache. Stress headaches can also be called muscle tension
headaches. I have wrote before about how stress, physical, chemical, and
emotional, is the cause of our aches, pains and ailments in one way or another.
This is also true for the stress headache.
There are many muscles that have attachments to the head, neck
and back that can play a roll in headaches. The sub-occipital muscles are
muscles that attach to the bottom of your skull. Obliquus capitus superior and
inferior, and the rectus capitus minor and major are some small muscles that
can play a big part in tension headaches. The splenius, semispinalis and
trapezius muscles are bigger muscles that also play a part with tension in the
neck and shoulders and headaches.
People that work at desks in Salt Lake City that are not ergonomically set up properly
or those of us that find ourselves looking down at our phones or tablets will
experience tension in these muscles. That tension can lead to a stress
headache. This tension can also lead to muscle spasm and what chiropractors
call subluxation, bone out of alignment or not moving properly. Chiropractic
can be of great help in relieving the misalignment and tension, but if you
don't change the ergonomics of your workstation or how you interact with your
mobile devices, you could easily find yourself in a cycle of this muscle
tension, spasm and subluxation.
As Salt Lake City Chiropractors, we correct the spinal misalignments, it would be wise
for you to use proper ergonomics, as well as, adjusting the way you do things
to insure that you have good posture. Doing this will allow your body to hold
your adjustments longer, decrease the degeneration of your spine and decrease
the frequency, if not get rid of the stress headaches that plague so many
people in Salt Lake City today.
To Your Health,
Dr. Tuft
