Food and Your Migraines

The comprehensive care delivered at Northland Physical Medicine is designed to address the CAUSES of your migraines including the structure of your neck, the nerves at the back of your nasal cavity, and FOOD.

What can be done about food?

At our office we can test for food sensitivities. These can cause everything from joint pain, the gas, bloating, constipation, nausea, low energy levels, and MIGRAINE HEADACHES.

This test will provide you a detailed list of foods that can create an immune response that causes inflammation, which causes the symptoms listed above, among many others.

Stop trying to guess your way out of food sensitivities, it is a tedious process and often filled with months or years of failure. Because it could be a "common" one like dairy or wheat or it could be completely obscure, like almonds (yes, this scored "high" for one of our patients, and NONE of the other more common foods).

This test will give you a precise list of foods you are sensitive to and which are the most inflammatory. This will allow you to prioritize how to change your eating habits to allow you to start feeling better MUCH faster.

Stop guessing. Get tested and get the foods out of your diet that are wreaking havoc with your health, especially your migraines.

Call us today to set up a complimentary consultation at 816-452-4488.

Stop letting migraines run your life.

Curves and Migraines

Along with testing for food sensitivities and checking to see if the nerves at the back of your nasal cavity, we at Northland Physical Medicine check to see if the shape of your NECK might be the cause of your migraines.

If the proper curve in your neck is absent, this can be an underlying cause of your migraines. Read this:

http://www.idealspine.com/corrective-chiropractic-why-is-a-proper-neck-curve-important-to-your-health/

How?

1. An inappropriate curve loads the joints in your neck incorrectly. These joints can become compressed, irritated, and refer pain that feels like a migraine.
2. The muscles on the opposing sides of your neck develop trigger points. These trigger points can refer pain that feels just like a migraine. These are common right at the base of the skull and into the upper shoulders.

Don't overlook this!

We take pride in addressing your migraines COMPREHENSIVELY. This means we will explore everything that could be causing this and address the problem with a customized plan just for you, all under one roof.

If you are tired of having migraines, call us today for a complimentary consultation at 816-452-4488 TODAY!

Is your nose related to your migraines?

Is your nose related to your migraine headaches? It could be!

Did you know that the nerves at the back part of your nasal passage can become irritated or inflamed and that they can cause the symptoms of your headaches?

Learn more about this problem and a unique procedure to address it at Northland Physical Medicine here in Kansas City.



If you are ready to address this problem and the overall CAUSES of your migraines, call the office for a complimentary consultation at 816-452-4488 TODAY.

Comprehensive Care Makes the Difference

When you are in pain or struggling with headaches, don't you hate having to go see multiple health practitioners? Scheduling all those appointments, driving to different offices, and sometimes getting conflicting information from different providers is a real PAIN.

At Northland Physical Medicine, we pride ourselves on creating an environment where we seamlessly integrate Medical services such as trigger point and joint injections for pain as well as delivering a procedure to manage severe chronic migraine headaches as well as structurally-based Chiropractic care as well as a full suite of rehabilitation services. ALL IN ONE PLACE. Easily set your appointments to see ALL the necessary providers in ONE place during ONE appointment.

If you are in pain or suffering with headaches, come to ONE place to help not only manage your symptoms with Medical services but to address the cause of your symptoms by correcting the structure of your body with Chiropractic adjustments and a customized rehabilitation program.

Call for your complimentary consultation TODAY 816-452-4488. Experience the difference of seamless healthcare integration to manage your pain and headaches.

Powerful Migraine Treatment Option

Learn the difference between tension and migraine headaches

Dr. Kendra Pearson Discusses the Migraine Headache Treatment Offered at Northland Physical Medicine

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Northland Physical Medicine in the News for Migraine Headaches Treatment

Why does my head hurt?

Ah, the joys of headaches in their many forms. From tension to migraines, headaches are no fun.

But, WHY do many people, including you, get headaches?

Here are a three primary reasons:

1.  Muscle tension.  Different muscles around you neck and shoulders can cause a "referral" pain pattern, such as over or around the head, landing in the forehead or behind the eyes.

The referral pattern comes from trigger points. These little nodules develop in muscles that are stressed and loaded inappropriately over time. The nodules, through different mechanisms, create pain at their location and also "send" pain into a specific pattern in the head, making you feel like you have a "headache".

The NPM Solution:  We address the trigger points themselves with our nurse practitioner implementing shallow injections of a solution that numbs and flushes the trigger points, decreasing their pain generating potential. This is a very comfortable procedure, so fear not! We also address WHY there are trigger points in the first place with state of the art spinal reshaping and rebalancing techniques that take the stress off the muscles by optimizing the balance of the head over the shoulders, correcting "Anterior Head Syndrome", which is an incredibly common cause of headaches, among many other pain-related issues.

2.  Your gut.  Many people have food sensitivities or outright allergies they are unaware of. If people consume these foods regularly, they can disrupt optimal digestion and even create systemic low-grade inflammation. This can easily cause headaches, among MANY other problems throughout the body.

The NPM Solution:  We offer specific testing that helps address this issue, called OATS and IgG testing. These will give you a clear understanding of what foods cause problems for your body so you can eliminate or minimize them as well as knowing key nutrients to support optimal digestion and cellular health. This test has helped MANY people eliminate their headaches, among many other nagging health issues.

3.  Key nerves within your nasal cavity. When irritated, these nerves cause intense, chronic migraine and cluster headaches.

The NPM Solution:  We utilize a procedure that addresses these nerves directly. This procedure has helped thousands of people reclaim their lives from the debilitating impact of chronic, severe migraines.

As you can see, Northland Physical Medicine (NPM) is perfectly positioned to provide one or more of these services to address the true CAUSE of your headaches.

If you are ready to eliminate headaches from your life, call us at 816-452-4488 to schedule your complimentary consultation TODAY.

Headaches.

Headaches come in many forms, including tension, migraine, cluster, and sinus/allergy. What they all have in common is that they are all debilitating and force you to alter your life around them, from taking over the counter meds at various times of the year to hiding in a dark room with no sound or smell for hours or days.

Are you ready to begin to consider a more natural approach to relieving your headaches?

Here at Northland Physical Medicine we address the most common causes of headaches:

1.  Structural.  Many times headaches are one aspect of a structural imbalance called "Anterior Head Syndrome".

What happens:  The head is carried in front of the body, forcing the muscles at the base of your skull and across your shoulders to work harder than normal. The increased muscle tension leads to the joints of various parts of your spine in the neck and upper back to quit moving properly and become a headache pain generator, as well as the muscles themselves, which develop trigger points that can refer headache pain as well.

How we correct it:  Through our comprehensive structural corrective care we address every aspect of Anterior Head Syndrome, including adjust the joints that are restricted, rebalancing muscle function, directly addressing trigger points, AND reshaping the spine that has likely lost it's optimal shape and curve.

2.  Addressing the nerves causing your headaches.  After a thorough assessment, we may find that we have to directly address the nerves in a part of your nasal cavity that cause certain types of headaches.

How we correct it:  We use a very specific procedure that actually addresses the nerves at the back part of your nasal cavity directly. This procedure creates powerful relief for many people with debilitating headaches.

If you are tired of "patching" your headache pain, then schedule a complimentary consultation with at by calling 816-452-4488. Stop letting headaches run your life by addressing cause of them. Take your life back TODAY!

Back Pain, Neck Pain, and Headaches

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Correcting the Cause of Pain

Pain. At some point in your life you will likely experience it, whether it be in the form of a headache, low back pain, neck pain, or that irritating ache across your shoulders. Unfortunately most people will only ever address it on the level of a patch, instead of addressing the cause of it.

You are taught that pain is a manifestation of a lack of an NSAID (Non Steroidal Anti Inflammatory Drug) like Aleve, Tylenol, or Aspirin. Or a lack of the right cream or  hot/cold pad. But alas, none of these are the CAUSE of your pain. Not to say these don't help you feel better, but they are still a mere patch.

So, what is typically the CAUSE of your pain?

The structural misalignment of your body is typically the main culprit. Here are some examples:

• Low back pain.  The low back can express pain from the joints of the lumbar spine being restricted, the SI (Sacro Iliac) joints being restricted, and the muscles of the lumbar extensors, gluteals (medius, minimus, and maximus), piriformis, hip flexors, among others. These muscles can develop trigger points that refer pain the many parts of the low back area, as well as down the legs or into the hips. These are CAUSES. In order to CORRECT them, you need to have them assessed and corrected through corrective exercise, precision joint adjustments, and spinal reshaping techniques as needed.
• Neck pain, the annoying ache across your shoulders, and headaches. The most common problem with this area is "Anterior Head Carriage". The head is carried in front of the body instead of over the shoulders, which tightens the muscles at the base of the skull (suboccipitals) and across the shoulders (upper trapezius and levator scapulae) which can create trigger points which are notorious pain generators, as well as joints that become restricted that also cause a number of pain symptoms and decrease the range of movement of the head and neck. If the distortion present in the neck isn't addressed through adjustments, corrective exercises, and specific spinal reshaping techniques, you are merely patching a problem.

If you are in the Kansas City area and want to finally CORRECT the CAUSE of your pain instead of continuously patching it, then schedule a complimentary consultation at Northland Physical Medicine at 816-452-4488.