Where Are Your Headaches Stemming From?

If you seem to get headaches for no reason at all, you may not realize how everyday stimuli and even our own bodily processes can trigger that unwanted pain. Let us examine some common headache triggers in Flower Mound.

Headache Triggers

1. Physical or emotional stress can cause a tension headache. Our muscles react to tension in our lives by creating the tension of their own. The resulting tightness affects the blood supply to the head while also creating uncomfortable knots in the neck or shoulder muscles.
2. Our dietary choices can trigger a headache. Migraine sufferers in particular may have a sensitivity to many common foods containing tyramine, such as aged cheese, chocolate, and red wine. Caffeine can amplify this problem, though withdrawal from caffeine can also give you a temporary pain in the head. Skipping meals can cause your glucose levels to plummet, triggering a headache.
3. Environmental and conditional factors can play a role in migraines. Bright sunlight, loud noises, industrial chemicals, and overpowering scents can all set off an episode. Spinal misalignments from auto accident injuries or sports injuries can also cause a headache.
4. Headache symptoms may occur as a side effect of medications. Drugs that dilate the blood vessels and alter blood pressure levels, for instance, can trigger a migraine.

How Our Flower Mound Chiropractor Can Help

Here at Butler Chiropractic, our chiropractor, Dr. Butler, can relieve the muscular stress that triggers a tension headache. Adjustments can even help normalize your blood pressure to help reduce migraine frequency. We also offer lifestyle and nutrition counseling to help you avoid specific foods, medications or other common headache triggers. At the same time, we can relieve headache pain, back pain or other issues caused by a sports injury or auto accident injury.

Do you have a particular headache trigger? Tell us about it!