Headaches holding you back?

This week is Spinal Health Week an initiative of the Australian Chiropractors Association (ACA). It is Australia’s longest-running national health awareness campaign dedicated to improving the spinal health of Australians of all ages.

Annually, Spinal Health Week focusses on a specific spinal health issue while promoting the importance of maintaining good spinal health to improve overall wellbeing.

With more than 7 million Australians suffering from debilitating tension headaches, and more than 4.9 million suffering chronic migraine (1), the economic impact to Australia exceeds $35.7 billion annually (2).

During national Spinal Health Week 2023, the ACA is tackling spine related headaches head on by increasing awareness of the painful condition and improving spinal health through effective, low risk (3), drug-free solutions that limit the impact headaches have on the quality of life of over 46% of Australians.

If you or someone you know is among the 11.9 million Australians suffering from headaches or migraines and you’re tired of headaches holding you back, get in touch to book an appointment with ACA accredited Chiropractor Chris and take back control of your life!

References:

1. Deloitte, ‘Migraine in Australia Whitepaper’, https://www2.deloitte.com/au/en/pages/economics/articles/migraine-australia-whitepaper.html

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4. P. Posadzki, E. Ernst 2012, Spinal manipulations for tension-type headaches: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials, Complementary Therapies in Medicine, Volume 20, Issue 4, Pages 232-239, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0965229911001610?via%3Dihub

5. Migraine and Headache Australia, Prevalence and Cost of Headache, https://headacheaustralia.org.au/what-is-headache/prevalence-and-cost-of-headache/

6. Castien RF, van der Windt DA, Grooten A, Dekker J. Effectiveness of manual therapy for chronic tension-type headache: A pragmatic, randomised, clinical trial. Cephalalgia. 2011;31(2):133-143, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0333102410377362

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12. Deloitte, ‘Migraine in Australia Whitepaper’, https://www2.deloitte.com/au/en/pages/economics/articles/migraine-australia-whitepaper.html

13. Migraine and Headache Australia, 2021, ‘Migraine’, https://headacheaustralia.org.au/migraine/

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