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From: era@era.scd.ucar.edu (Ed Arnold)
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Subject: Re: Migraine Headaches
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Date: 9 Feb 90 05:12:34 GMT
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Index Number: 6610

In article <9995@bunker.UUCP> rudy@mtqua.att.com (Avram R Vener) writes:
|Index Number: 6606
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|Several weeks ago I managed to throw out my back.  Since then I
|have been seeing a Chiropractor who has helped enormously.  Last
|week he and I sat down after my 'adjustment' session and he
|explained what he hoped to accomplish overall.  One thing he stated
|was that when the back was in good adjustment and pressure was
|releived from the central and peripheral nervous systems  there was
|often overall benefits including reduction or elimination of
|migraine headaches.
|
|At the time this was of only incidental interest to me since I do
|not get migraine headaches, but upon reading your message his words
|popped to the surface.  Has anyone else on this echo attempted pain
|reduction through chiropracty?

The chiropractor I occasionally use, claims that approx. 70% of his
clients have problems with migraine to some degree, often accompanied
by other problems.  He claims that he has had "good" success in reducing
or eliminating migraine attacks.

Disclaimer: I went to him for back pain (he does a good job alleviating
that), but not for migraine, so I don't speak from personal experience.
On the other hand, this guy is pretty honest (unlike some other DCs
I've had the misfortune of using); so I'm inclined to believe that
his treatment does work for at least some migraine cases.
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