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Headache and migraine Osteopathic treatment

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Osteopathic treatment for headaches and migraines. Combining Osteo and Medical Acupuncture for effective, evidence-based treatment.

Osteopathy offers a holistic approach to headaches and migraines, addressing the underlying causes and providing effective relief through manual techniques, postural correction, stress reduction, and personalised treatment plans.

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Effective help for headaches and migraines

At Movement Mechanics Osteopathy Auckland, we provide effective treatment for migraines and headaches. Our experienced practitioners will thoroughly assess your condition, considering all potential contributing factors and triggers. With a personalised treatment plan, including osteopathic techniques, lifestyle modifications, and preventive strategies, we can help reduce the frequency, intensity, and duration of your headache or migraine.

How Osteopathy can help tension headaches

Tension headaches are usually caused by stress and muscle tension, with patients complaining of pain or discomfort in the head, scalp, or neck. Osteopathic treatment techniques, such as myofascial release and spinal manipulation, can help significantly reduce tension headaches' frequency, intensity, and duration. Our team will also look at the areas of your spine associated with the body's fight, fright and flight responses to help down-regulate the nervous system and have a calming, stress-reducing effect on your body.

Osteopath care for intense cluster headaches

Cluster headaches are intense, debilitating headaches that often cause pain around the eyes and head. Osteopathy can help reduce pain intensity, frequency, and duration of headaches. Your Osteopath will use soft tissue manipulation techniques such as inhibition, active release therapy, and massage to help elevate symptoms. Some osteopaths will also use cranial osteopathy as part of a holistic approach to managing cluster headaches.

Sinus congestion and inflammation

Sinus headaches are often associated with sinus inflammation and congestion caused by allergies or sinus infections. It often feels like dull pain or like pressure and affects your face and forehead – and sometimes behind or between your eyes. At Movement Mechanics Osteopathy, our experienced osteopaths focus on improving overall sinus and cranial function. This includes sinus drainage and manual therapy, which can help address underlying sinus inflammation and congestion.

Neck pain and headaches, also known as cervicogenic headaches

Cervicogenic headaches are typically caused by musculoskeletal dysfunction in the neck region. Osteopathic treatments, such as spinal manipulation, soft tissue manipulation, and myofascial release, target the underlying neck and cervical spine issues. It helps improve cervical mobility, reduce muscle tension, and restore proper alignment, leading to symptom relief and improved overall well-being.

Frequently asked questions

Here are some of the questions we get about Osteopathy, migraines and headaches

Osteopathy can help provide relief following a migraine as well as help with the frequency of migraines in some cases. Following a migraine most people have to lay down for extended periods of time in a dark room and some even throw up. This combined with the tightening of muscle due to pain can lead to muscle aches and pain and restricted movement of the head, neck and shoulder following a migraine. Osteopaths can help address these issues with a wide range of techniques. Osteopaths can also work with migraine sufferers to ensure optimal function of the neck and head ensuring appropriate blood flow to these regions and helping minimise possible triggers.

Osteopathy is very effective at treating many types of headaches particularly those that have muscle or biomechanics causes. Headaches can commonly be triggered by poor posture, recruitment of the wrong muscles for movement and breathing as well as restricted joints in the neck. For headaches that are associated with stress, osteopaths can help influence the parts of the spine responsible for fight, fright and flight, great for relaxing the nervous system, promoting relaxation and calming the nervous system.

Having poor biomechanics of your spine or it being held in abnormal positions due to muscular imbalances can cause headaches. Since your spine houses your spinal cord and provides points for your nerves to branch out and supply your tissues, if it isn't in the correct position it can cause problems such as misaligned joints of the spine irritating the nerve cause pain, altered sensations, headaches and even pins and needles. Our osteopaths carefully assess the spine to determine if it is causing or contributing to your headaches and perform techniques such as joint manipulation, stretching and soft tissue mobilisation to reduce points of nerve irritation.

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