Migraines, Headaches & Pain—There’s a Better Way

Hi, I’m Dr. Corey Powers, chiropractor here in Omaha, Nebraska. I’ve been in practice since 1997 and here at this
0:077 secondslocation since 2006. A lot of patients have asked over the years, why did you become a chiropractor? And the simple answer is that I came from a
0:1515 secondschiropractic family. My grandfather was a chiropractor. My uncle and mentor also a chiropractor. And so in our family
0:2222 secondsgrowing up, chiropractic was like our first stop for healthcare. If you started to get a cold or a flu, you got adjusted. If you were getting a fever,
0:3030 secondsyou got adjusted. If you fell hard or crashed your bike or had an injury, you know, playing sports, you were going to get adjusted. And sometimes if you just needed an attitude adjustment, well,
0:4040 secondschiropractic was was the answer there,
0:4242 secondstoo. But seriously, I grew up with some great mentors in the profession. And I was able to see them help a lot of
0:4949 secondspeople with chiropractic and including myself. I can think of several injuries that occurred to me during wrestling,
0:5757 secondsthings that happened to me playing hockey where chiropractic was able to bring me back from pain and into a state of better function very, very quickly.
1:071 minute, 7 secondsAnd so, I’ve witnessed firsthand in my own health and in the health of, you know, my friends and family that chiropractic has been fantastic. The
1:141 minute, 14 secondslonger I practice, the more I see that chiropractic is a godsend to people who are suffering needlessly with all kinds
1:231 minute, 23 secondsof pain. In practice, I’ve seen so many different conditions respond favorably to chiropractic care. My favorite probably is our migraine patients who
1:311 minute, 31 secondsare just miserable when a migraine is coming on while they’re toughing it out.
1:361 minute, 36 secondsWe’ve had really good success treating migraine patients as well as headache patients of all different kinds of headaches. And headaches can be tricky.
1:441 minute, 44 secondsA lot of times there are medications that can help with the pain of headaches. A lot of times there are preventive or emergency medications that can help with those kinds of conditions.
1:541 minute, 54 secondsBut nobody really wants to be on those medications very often, they certainly don’t want to be on them for a lifetime.
2:002 minutesWe know that those drugs, although they’re helpful, although they can make a big difference for people, they can be toxic. Some of them cause some really
2:092 minutes, 9 secondskind of gnarly side effects. And so chiropractic is a great great way to help people with things like migraine headaches without giving them drugs,
2:182 minutes, 18 secondswithout sending them for surgery. And so if we can find and correct the parts of the spine that are not functioning properly, causing stress on the nervous
2:262 minutes, 26 secondssystem, and resolve that with chiropractic adjustments, it’s a natural, healthy way to help those people with migraine headaches.