Cluster Headaches | Blair Upper Cervical Chiropractic Care | Natural Cluster Headache Treatment Cluster headaches are named for the fact they occur in cycles. This is perhaps the most severe headache of all and can even wake a sleeping person due to how bad the pain is. A cluster period may last for several weeks [...]
Leg Pain | Can It Be Caused By Neck Trauma? Leg pain is a very debilitating condition that can affect ones activities, sleep and overall entire lifestyle. Pain can be severe and have detrimental effects on their health. Leg pain is commonly treated with numerous different modalities whether it is therapy or medications. Commonly this [...]
Natural ADD Treatment | Atlas Problems And ADD ADD and ADHD affects 11 percent of children in the United States. This disorder makes school difficult, disrupts families, and if severe enough it affects all aspects of a child’s life. ADD also affects adults causing them to have difficulty staying on task, finishing projects, and they often times [...]
Fibromyalgia Fibromyalgia is a state that’s been becoming more prevalent and getting more attention over the past few years. Fibromyalgia causes pain and achiness through the entire body, generalized fatigue, and several other associated symptoms. Up to 3-5% of the population suffers from fibromyalgia, and it’s more common in girls. Although it’s not life threatening, [...]
This is a common phrase we here in our office. Vertigo can be a debilitating condition that affects not only the person involved but their families also. Vertigo is an awareness of spinning, rocking, or the entire world spinning, experienced even when somebody is perfectly still. Many kids try to create an awareness of imbalance [...]
Do Migraines hold you back from fully experiencing life? When I was a teenager my migraines would severely affect everything in my life. I was looking for a solution. The only solution at the time was constant medications. These medications only numbed the pain and did not get to the cause of why they were [...]
What are you going to do? Is it going to hurt? Do you “pop and crack” the neck? These are typical questions asked before beginning treatment in an upper cervical chiropractor’s office. To answer these questions it is easiest to help understand what upper cervical chiropractic care is. Chiropractors in general are well [...]
Scoliosis Pain: Benefit From Chiropractic Treatment? Starting very early in my Chiropractic studies, I had the pleasure of learning from Dr. Fred Barge. Dr. Barge was one of the Chiropractic authorities in Scoliosis. I was able to see how he helped thousands of individuals. With Scoliosis screenings and tests, they are usually done way too [...]
Our office in Yarmouth has been helping individuals with trigeminal neuralgia since 2003. Unlike medical care, whose aim is to prescribe painkilling medication to help mask the pain, Upper Cervical Chiropractic care has the goal of increasing your bodies adaptive and healing potential by removing nerve irritation at the brain-stem (upper neck) level. In this [...]
The act of childbirth can be an extremely traumatic event –for both mother and child. The child is especially vulnerable to the forces placed on his/her spine. All forms of childbirth – c-section, vaginal birth, scheduled Cesarean or unscheduled Cesarean can stress a developing spine. The stress on the upper cervical spine is [...]