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There are nearly 28 million people in the United States aged 12 and older – nearly 13 percent of the population – suffering from headaches that fit the medical definition of migraine established by the IHS. This means one in every four U.S. households has a migraine sufferer. More than half of these sufferers have never received a physician diagnosis and most are not receiving the most appropriate treatment, despite new and effective therapies designed specifically to treat the pain and symptoms of migraine.
- A throbbing pain around one red, watery eye, with nasal congestion on that side of your face, you have a Cluster Headache.
- A dull, steady pain that feel like a band tightening around your head, your have a Tension Headache.
- A steady pain behind your face that gets worse if you bend forward and is accompanied by congestion, you have a sinus headache. Throbbing, and it begins on one side and cause nausea, your have a migraine.
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Cluster Headache
May arise from pressure on the nerves around the eyes. Swollen sinus tissue may press against portions of these nerves, causing these electrical pathways to short-circuit and emit pain signals.
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) Tension Headache
Is thought to be linked to disorders in certain muscles in the head and the neck. Pain can be localized around any of these muscles or can spread to affect a broad portion of the scalp.
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Sinus Headache
With a sinus headache, congestion within the sinus cavities leads to swelling that puts pressure on surrounding tissue and nerves, causing pain to radiate across the face.
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Acupuncture: has become a well-accepted alternative solution to the problem fully supported by medical studies, which proved that acupuncture significantly reduced the intensity and frequency of headaches as well as analgesic consumption.
Modern science believes that acupuncture:
- can bring about many biochemical changes in the blood serum to stabilize serotonin, a chemical messenger in the brain and spinal cord, and release endorphins, the brain’s nature painkillers.
- affects the autonomic nervous system and activates the parasympathetic nervous system to decrease stress, muscle tension, anxiety, irritability and prevent recurrence.
- promotes cerebral circulation, allowing the afflicted region to obtain sufficient blood supply, oxygen and nutrition.
We offer a safe, effective alternative treatment to restore and maintain the harmony in your body, which helps you become pain free and remain stable over time with no side effects.
Acupressure given its ability to lower stress and induce relaxation, acupressure may play important role in supporting the immune system. Certain techniques help to stimulate lymph flow and eliminate wastes from the body.
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An Acupuncturist's Perspective on Migraine Headaches
...Acupuncture is effective for both migraine and tension headaches. Careful evaluation is necessary to differentiate between these two conditions since the acupuncture treatment I give is different for each.... |
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Acupuncture for Headaches and Head Pain
...Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has a very consistent and philosophically-based framework for headache etiology, physiology, diagnosis and treatment strategy. Acupuncture, as an effective treatment modality, has been applied to headaches from the earliest beginnings of TCM.... |
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Acupuncture for Migraine and Recurrent Headaches
...Based on these findings, the researchers concluded that acupuncture "has a role in the treatment of recurrent headaches." They added that while the small sample sizes and overall quality of the studies prohibited them from making a straightforward recommendation of acupuncture, the treatment "seems to be relatively safe in the hands of qualified providers... |
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Acupuncture 'Neats Headache pain'
...Patients receiving acupuncture experienced 22 fewer days of headache per year, used 15% less medication, made 25% fewer visits to their GP and were absent from work through sickness 15% less than the control group... |
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 Service the San Francisco Bay Area since 1994. Voted the best acupuncturist in Sunnyvale!  |
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