Low back pain and headache disorders are two of the top five leading causes of years lived with disability. Often, people with persistent low back pain and chronic headache disorders are managed by clinicians in different specialties, which can lead to unintended medication overuse and, ultimately, an escalation of symptomatology.
Spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) and movement-based care have been shown to be highly effective at helping people find relief from low back pain and headaches. Improving biomechanics and overcoming fear avoidance behavior are two of the benefits that SMT offers over medications.
The safety of SMT and the elimination of refractory or medication overuse headaches are additional reasons many clinicians and patients choose chiropractic care for low back pain and headache care.
If you have patients struggling with low back pain and headaches, we are happy to provide a complete evaluation to see if our evidence-informed, movement-based care is best to help them overcome these disabling conditions.
“People with both low back pain and headache disorders may constitute a neglected patient group that could have both conditions managed in combination, rather than as separate entities.”
“…it is biologically plausible that the neuromodulator CGRP (calcitonin gene-related peptide) is involved in an association between low back pain and migraine.”
“A combined approach to treating both conditions could reduce pill-burden, medication overuse and provide a holistic treatment approach for the two chronic pain syndromes.”
We believe patients have better outcomes when
their health professionals work together.
