- Hi, this is Doctor Ryan Suh.
I'm a Gonstead New York City chiropractor
in mid-town Manhattan.
In this video we're going to talk about migraines.
So, have you ever had a throbbing type of headache,
that seems to be worse on one side versus the other?
Probably experienced some visual disturbances,
nausea, or a tight band around your head.
Chances are, you probably had a migraine headache.
Approximately 20% of people have them,
and if you're one of those sufferers
you know how debilitating it can be.
Also, for migraine sufferers there are certain triggers
that you know, that can offset migraine headaches,
such as certain foods, drinks, a stressful event,
maybe sleep or so forth.
So it's important to understand and differentiate
from what triggers a migraine
and what causes a migraine.
So I'll have patients who tell me, he says,
"Hey Doc, this red wine I had last night,
it always sets off my migraine headaches."
Therefore, red wine causes migraine headaches.
Well, red wine, it's more of a trigger for a migraine.
Same deal such as coffee or chocolate,
so on and so forth.
So if red wine truly is a trigger,
I'm sorry, if red wine truly is a cause of a migraine,
then every single person who ever had red wine
would have a migraine.
Or coffee, or tea, so on and so forth.
But we know that's not true.
So what really causes migraine headaches?
Well Harvard Medical School has their interesting theory
on what causes migraine headaches,
and this is a three-step mechanism.
The very first step is what I find very interesting.
They say, a misalignment in the upper part of your neck
is what causes domino effect.
So as a chiropractor, this is what I ind very intriguing
and what I also find to be very true.
So when the very first bone or second bone
of the upper part of your neck,
when that misaligns what happens is,
it can start constricting the blood vessels
in the upper part over here,
and also irritates nearby nerves.
Therefore it's like a feeding...
Feedback loop causing the blood vessels
to constrict even more, reducing more blood supply
to that certain area of the brain.
The brain recognizes that there's less blood supply
to that area, therefore the normal areas in our brain
says hey, we need to have more blood in here.
So therefore, the normal blood vessels,
they're being programmed, and it says okay,
let's open it up and lets supply more blood flow
to those areas, because we need the blood in that
lower part, it's got a low blood supply
area of the brain right now.
So the blood vessels, they rapidly expand
to shunt all that blood in there.
But here's the problem, with that rapid emergency
type of expansion, that also,
it irritates those nearby nerves,
and that's what gives you that throbbing sensation
of that type of headache.
So once again, as for migraine sufferers,
it's a point to understand what those migraines are.
You can do a lot of stuff to help avoid
the triggers of it, but wouldn't it make
a lot more sense, let's address,
and let's correct the cause.
So once again, Harvard Medical School
says the very first couple of bones
in the upper part of your neck,
that's really what starts off all these migraine attacks.
So as a chiropractor, this is my specialty,
this is my expertise, this is what I correct
every single day, all day long.
So here's what I want you to do next.
Please post this information on your timeline.
You probably have some friends who have migraine headaches
and you don't even know about it.
So when your friends, when they see this video,
they'll get the information they need.
So once again, my name is Doctor Ryan Suh,
I'm a Gonstead chiropractor in mid-town Manhattan.
Thank you, have a good day.