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Migraine Relief: Acute vs. Alternative Preventative Treatment Measures for Migraine Headaches

The Story Goes Kind of Like This:

woman with a headache

A crushing migraine comes out of nowhere. It hits you like a steel rod in the head. Maybe you’re at work, and if you’re lucky you’re home. You can barely move or talk. Basically, you just want to lay down and die. You think to yourself, maybe google knows the answer this time.

You muster up enough courage and strength to grab your phone and stare into a screen, ouch. That light hurts your head so bad you want to throw up. You search: “Help migraine,” “Migraine relief,” Fast migraine relief,” “How to get rid of a Migraine now,” anything to get an answer!

You scour the internet, searching for answers. Boom you found it, this is the one, the answer you’ve been looking for! “The one thing you need to do now to stop Migraines!” Your read on, “Don’t drink coffee, stop eating chocolate, and avoid screens.” Seriously! That’s it! I’ll just crawl in under my covers and cry, thanks for nothing!

If this sounds familiar you are not alone. I repeat, you are NOT alone. Pick up or look up any recommendations for migraine relief and you’ll get just about the same old thing every time. These experts will tell you to stop eating chocolate, avoid triggers, stop eating gluten and dairy. “I’ve done all that boss, now what!? Plus, I kind of like chocolate.”

Let’s take a step back. Once you’re in it, I’ll tell you, you’re in it. What can you do? Ride it out and find a real answer when you can move again.

What do the Statistics Say?

While only 12% of people who get migraines use preventative measures, 98% use acute treatment measures.(1)

Of the over 39 million Americans that suffer from migraine headaches, 40 percent of them could seriously benefit from preventative therapies. (2)(3) That’s over 15 million people in this country alone that could get help before a migraine even starts! The question is are you one of them and what in the world can you do about it, stop eating chocolate!? Don’t tell me that again or I think I really will throw up.

What if there was a real answer for the some 15 million. What if I told you, you could be checked to see if a preventative treatment therapy can work for you or not? Well that’s what I’m telling you, you can.

How does this Potentially Preventative Migraine Happen?

There are nerves in your neck that go up to your head and if you have a specific condition called an Atlanto-axial-occipital subluxation there is pressure on those nerves and it could be the cause of your migraines!

Wait Atlanto-axial what, huh? Hey doc, I have a migraine remember. You’re making my head hurt. English, please. Let me break it down simply.

You have a bone that surrounds the bottom of your brain stem, well we all do, it’s called your atlas. Your brain stem controls everything in your body and all the nerves stem from there, no pun intended, they really do. If these nerves have pressure on them, nerve and blood flow to your head is affected which can and will lead to headaches, even migraines, if left untreated.

How do I find out if I have this problem?

All fun aside. Migraines are debilitating and they affect people’s lives in a major way. It’s scary as all heck to not know when they are going to happen and even worse to not know when they will end.

They stop us from working, going to the gym, playing with our kids, going out with friends and doing the things that we love to do. We can’t live our lives all out and I’m sick of people suffering when I know there is an answer for a lot of them. Have an expert evaluate your spinal structure, especially your upper cervical spine to see if you have an atlanto-axial-occipital subluxation.

Who is the expert?

Despite what you may read online, less than 1% of doctors in the world are true experts at upper cervical work (a type of care that evaluates the atlanto-axial-occipital for misalignment). There is a small group of around 250 doctors that have unique training in a system called NUCCA. NUCCA is a gentle and very specific chiropractic technique that requires no twisting, popping or cracking.

How is NUCCA different?

NUCCA chiropractors are trained at detailed analysis and correction of upper cervical spine problems. They know how to correct this devastating condition and assist people in the recovery process back to full function and healthy living. Maybe you’re thinking, there’s no way this is going to work I’ll just take a pain killer and go lay back down. Then don’t listen to me, listen to this patient:

“The constant pain and agony that I would suffer from on a daily basis would affect my performance at work, as well as my ability to just get through every day. I didn’t want to do anything out of fear of being in more pain. I would take a combination of Advil and Tylenol all day long in addition to ice pack and heat treatments just to make it through the day.

After my first meeting and adjustment I felt relief, and time after time the pain and my headaches began happening further apart. I am no longer self-medicating because my condition has improved so greatly thanks to the care and the treatment. I would just have to say if you suffer like I did, this program can be the answer for you too. Thank you, Friends Family Spinal Care!”
-J. Nocerino

P.S. If you have tried cortisone shots, migraine medication, surgeries, botox, etc. with no relief and are thinking I’ve tried everything this can’t work for me! Let me help you, you already ruled out all those treatments, and it didn’t help you.

Move on to the next, don’t give up! If you did all of that or most of it with no relief it is more likely you have this condition and you can get some serious help.

Not all migraine sufferers are candidates.

The only way to know is through a thorough examination by a NUCCA expert. During this evaluation a doctor will sit and talk with you 1 on 1 to determine exactly what your individual needs are. If he or she thinks this is something they can help you with, you will receive a series of nerve and thermography testing. This will test the nerves that can create a migraine.

After this the doctor will recommend any x-rays that are necessary to determine what exactly can be done to help you and your case. The doctor will then take the time to study and analyze the findings from evaluation. You will be scheduled for a follow up appointment within 24-48 hours to find out if the doctor can help you!

It’s our genuine hope that this nightmare you are going through right now will one day become a distant memory.

Contact us now to find a NUCCA Doctor in your area or call 954-369-1212

Sources:
(1) Diamond S, Bigal ME, Silberstein S, Loder E, Reed M, Lipton RB. Patterns of diagnosis and acute and preventive treatment for migraine in the United States: results from the American Migraine Prevalence and Prevention Study. Headache 2007;47:355-363.
(2) Lipton RB, Bigal ME, Diamond M, Freitag F, Reed ML, Stewart WF; American Migraine Prevalence and Prevention (AMPP) Advisory Group. Migraine prevalence, disease burden, and the need for preventative therapy. Neurology. 2007;68(5):343-349
(3) United States Census Bureau. US World and Population Clock. https://www.census.gov/popclock/. Sept 30 2019


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You Have Been Adjusted a Hundred Times. Why Has It Never Held?

FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN ADJUSTED A HUNDRED TIMES AND STILL HURT

Relief that lasts four days is not a correction. It is a rental. There is a structural reason your body keeps pulling back to the place that hurts, and until someone measures it, nothing changes.


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Benefits of Chiropractic Care

Most people are aware of the pain-reducing advantages of this remarkable science. Here are other common benefits and specific conditions that we focus on at Friends & Family Spinal Care:

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  • Structural exam, not a guess
  • No treatment plan without a measurable cause
  • 14,000+ patients corrected

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If You Are Reading This, You Have Probably Already Tried:

  • Physical therapy that helped while you were in the room
  • Massage that lasted until you drove home
  • Injections that worked, until they did not
  • An adjustment that felt incredible Tuesday and was gone by Saturday
  • An MRI that came back clean and left you with nothing
  • A specialist who told you to manage it
  • Enough time and money that you have stopped adding it up

And somewhere in there, you started wondering if this is just your body now.

It is not.

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The Reason Relief Keeps Expiring

Things that hold have structure.

Every treatment you have tried worked on the symptom. The muscle that was tight. The joint that was stuck. The nerve that was screaming. And each one worked, right up until your body pulled back to the position it was in before you walked in.

Because the position never changed.

You have been treated by good people who never measured your structure, because measuring it takes an instrument almost no one owns and training almost no one has. Not their fault. It just means the actual question never got asked.

You cannot correct what nobody has measured. Everything else is maintenance.

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Your MRI Was Not Wrong. It Was Answering a Different Question.

An MRI is built to find disease. Tumors. Herniations. Ruptures. The things that need a surgeon.

When yours came back clean, it did its job perfectly. It told you that you do not have the thing it was designed to find.

But it was never built to measure how your head sits on top of your neck. By how many degrees. Or how that position interferes with the nerves running through it.

Different question. Different instruments. Different results.

What an MRI looks for

  • Disease and damage
  • Is something torn or growing
  • A surgical answer
  • Yes or no

What we measure

  • Position and alignment
  • How your head sits on your spine, in degrees
  • A structural correction
  • Why, and by how much
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The One Thing Almost No One Measures

I am Dr. Justin Brown, founder of Atlinea.

Our doctors correct the alignment at the very top of your spine, and we do it with the specific precision required to return your body to the position it needs to be in to heal the way it was designed to.

That is the entire focus. Not a menu of services. One correction, measured and made properly.

Meet the Doctor

Dr. Justin Brown

DC Founder, Atlinea

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Where This Actually Starts

It is called The Comprehensive. Sixty minutes, one on one with one of our doctors, and it runs in three parts.

01. We Listen

You talk. We listen. Your whole history, everything you have tried, what it has cost you, and what you have given up because of it. Not a five minute intake. An actual conversation about your specific problem.

02. We Learn

Then we measure what nobody has measured.

  • Full structural exam
  • Functional neurological assessment
  • Muscle asymmetry test
  • StemWave tissue scan

What is working. What is not. And why.

03. We Lead

You leave knowing the root cause, why this has never held, and exactly what correcting it would take. In plain language, with your own numbers in front of you.

Sixty minutes to finally get the answer that years of appointments never gave you.

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This is what The Comprehensive actually looks like: a full structural exam, not a quick adjustment.

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If We Cannot Correct It, We Will Tell You On Day One

Here is our promise.

If our doctors do not find a structural cause that we can correct, they will tell you on day one, and we will not take you on as a patient.

No treatment plan. No package. No follow up call three days later.

You leave with the truth and a direction. Not a sales pitch.

We would rather lose the patient than sell you another rental.

What It Costs To Find Out

The Comprehensive: $45 to reserve your time

 

  • 60 minutes one on one with one of our doctors
  • Full structural exam
  • Functional neurological assessment
  • Muscle asymmetry test
  • StemWave tissue scan
  • A clear explanation of your root cause and what correction would require

Continue to imaging? The $45 is credited toward your care.

Come in and decide not to move forward? We refund the $45.
Either way? The Spine Strong Library is yours the moment you book.

Free When You Book: The Spine Strong Library
Our complete exercise system. The full library, yours to keep whether or not you ever become a patient. We send it the moment you reserve your time.

 
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People Who Stopped Renting Relief

Bonnie M.
Miami, FL · 20 years of low back pain
"After the first adjustment, my pain was gone! I am so happy! I can't say enough, I feel like a new person!"
Barbara P.
Parkland, FL · Chronic neck pain & TMJ
"I had no neck pain within weeks of treatment, no tension, and my TMJ is minimal."
Christy
Coral Springs, FL · Degenerative disc disease
"After experiencing a NUCCA adjustment, I no longer had back pain. I urge others to try NUCCA prior to any surgery!"
Erin D.
Coral Springs, FL · Chronic migraines & headaches
"I am virtually migraine and headache free... I have my life back!!!"

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What It Costs To Find Out

This is for you if:

  • You have had the same problem for months or years
  • You have tried multiple providers and nothing has held
  • Your imaging came back clean and nobody could explain it
  • You get relief that expires on a schedule
  • You want to know the cause before you commit to anything

This is not for you if:

  • You are looking for a single adjustment to get through the week
  • You have an acute injury that needs emergency care
  • You are not open to hearing that the cause may be structural
  • You want a treatment plan without a diagnosis first
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Before You Book

Is this just a chiropractor?

Our doctors correct one specific thing: the alignment at the top of your spine. That is a narrower and more measured discipline than general adjusting, and it starts with instruments rather than hands. If you have been adjusted before and it did not hold, this is the reason we start with a measurement instead of a table.

Because sixty minutes of a doctor’s time is real, and a free appointment is an appointment people do not show up for. The $45 reserves the slot. If you come in and decide not to move forward, you get it back.

Then we tell you on day one and we do not take you on as a patient. You leave with what we measured and a direction to take it.

That depends entirely on what we find, and anyone who quotes you a timeline before measuring you is guessing. You will get a specific answer at the end of your Comprehensive, based on your own numbers.

Possibly. If your Comprehensive points to a structural cause, imaging is the next step, and your $45 is credited toward it.

 

Yes. We accept most PPO plans, auto/PIP insurance for accident injuries, and FSA/HSA funds, plus patient financing and direct-pay options if you’re uninsured. Call (954) 645-7272 and we’ll verify your benefits before your first visit.

4500 N University Dr, Suite 100, Coral Springs, FL 33065 — right next to the 7-Eleven at the corner of University Dr & Wiles Rd, with parking out front. Call (954) 645-7272 with questions.

Any prior imaging you have, a list of what you have already tried, and sixty minutes without a hard stop after it.