Headaches: Chiropractic vs. Drug Therapy

Dr. Monti Sorem from Lacey, Washington here. When I am not treating patients at Crossroads ProC.A.RE I am trying to read as much as possible.

I was emailed at summary of headache research. In chiropractic we have had lots of anecdotal research of chiropractic reducing or eliminating headaches, but now we have really good evidence support this.
In 1998 and study by Nelson et al show that 8 weeks of manipulative therapy was 57% more effective than drug therapy for long term outcome of headache sufferers.

Recently, a 2011 study by Bryan et al showed that manipulation is effective is reducing headache symptoms.

If we examine the side effects of common drugs for migraines/headaches and the effectiveness of chiropractic it is easy to see that chiropractic should be the first line of defense and drugs should be second.

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