CONDITIONS WE TREAT
- Accidents & Injuries
- Arthritis
- Carpal Tunnel
- Failed Back Surgery
- Fibromyalgia
- Headaches
- Hip & Sacroiliac Leg Problems
- Mid-back & Ribs
- Migraines & Cluster Headaches
- Muscle Spasms & Trigger Points
- Neck Pain
- Pinched Nerves
- Pregnancy
- Sciatica
- Scoliosis
- Shoulder, Arm & Hand Problems
- Sports
- TMJ
- Whiplash
- Work Injury
- Condition Overview
HEADACHES
What is it?
The ache in headache does not come from your brain- your brain cannot feel pain. During brain surgery a patient is often wide awake feeling nothing, even talking to the surgeons and nurses while his/her brain is being operated on.
So what puts the “ache” in headache? It’s the non-brain structures; blood vessels, membranes and cranial nerves in the brains and skull. When these structures are stretched, compressed, irritated, inflamed or infected, headaches often result.
Doctor of Cause
For many years it has been said the DC after a Doctor of Chiropractic’s name also stands for “Doctor of Cause” – chiropractors correct the cause of a patient’s health problems, rather than give painkillers and other drugs which only treat the symptoms.
A team of surgeons may have found one of the answers as to why chiropractic works so well. They discovered a small neck muscle that connects to brain membranes. When the neck is out of alignment, this muscle can actually pull on the brain. The lead surgeon concluded that an increasing body of literature relates headaches to pathology affecting the cervical spine and a number of clinical trails have demonstrated that chiropractic is valuable for managing headaches.
Treatment
Dr. Schroeder is specially trained to analyze your body for a serious and often ignored condition that can damage your nerves, cause tissue inflammation, cause muscles to tighten and knot, weaken your body, cause fatigue and set the stage for sickness and disease. This condition is called the vertebral subluxation complex (VSC).
VSC is a tiny distortion or misalignment in your spine that stresses your nervous system, the system that controls your body. Any physical or emotional stress that your body cannot withstand can cause your spine to develop a VSC.
Using low force techniques, Dr. Schroeder can determine if you have a VSC. If you do, a safe, gentle spinal adjustment is used to correct the vertebral subluxation complex, remove the nerve pressure and spinal distortion.