Migraine Headaches and Chiropractic--Some Amazing Stories

In my 15 years of Chiropractic service, I've had the good fortune of helping hundreds if not thousands with various types of headaches. The most painful and complex cases have usually been migraine sufferers. Amazingly, some of my most amazing "MIRACLE" cases-and many chiropractors have such stories-have been migraine patients.

I remember in my first year in practice, a Medical Doctor brought his wife, with terrible daily migraines, in because all else had failed. His wife was now unresponsive to 8 ADVIL she had to take early in the morning to have any chance of warding off the terrible "whopper" as she called it. I examined her and noticed a major "subluxation" in her first vertebra of the neck, commonly called the atlas. Upon adjusting her atlas, her headache disappeared and she was no longer sensetive to light or loud sounds. I asked them to return to my office the next day and her headache was no more. I explained how that subluxation may have been preventing her body from healing itself. I released her from care in a few short weeks when I realized her adjustment was beginning to hold. She would return periodically for wellness checkups to ensure that (or any other) problem could be contained before it got out of hand. In a couple of months, she informed me that she was moving out of town. I helped her search for another chiropractor who would be convenient for her. 2 years later I had the occasion to visit an out-of-town post office to purchase some stamps. She heard my voice from the back room where she worked and rushed to the front and said with tears in her eyes, "Dr. Syed, I'm so pleased to see you again. I just wanted to tell you that I haven't had a single migraine since that first adjustment you gave me and now since I've moved to this town, I've been seeing my chiropractor regularly."

This story has been repeated many times in my office since then. As a result of seeing many migraine successes, I've been fortunate to have been invited as a guest speaker at many places on the topic. The most significant of those places have been the New England Headache Center, the Norwalk Hospital and most recently the Milford Hospital, right here in Milford, CT.

Just recently we had another amazing "migraine miracle" in the office when a gentleman with terrible migraines for over 15 years came in to try Chiropractic after having taken thousands of pills, several x-rays and even a number of MRI's. Amazingly, within a couple of weeks of starting Chiropractic care, his migraines have resolved completely.
I find that many patients with this horrible ailment are actually suffering from a "subluxation" in the neck region. A subluxation is simply an area in the spine that is not functioning properly. These subluxations may retard a person's ability to regulate or heal themselves. So in actuality, we aren't healing anyone-EVER! All we do is identify if a person has subluxations and if so, where they may be. Then we carefully restore the function of the spine in those regions and the body begins to regulate itself just as it was always meant to be.

Hmmm...come to think of it, the miracle is actually the function of the body when it is expressing full vitality and wellness in the absence of subluxations.

Who knows, help for this nagging and chronic epidemic may be easier than you think.

Have a beautiful, healthy and well day!
Dr. Behjat H. Syed