What Puts the "Ache" in Headache?
Surprisingly, a headache is not a "brainache." The brain. most of its membranes and the skull feel no pain at all. That is why during brain surgery patients can be wide awake, even talking to the doctors while their brains are cut, priobed or otherwise tampere with (local nesthetic is used to numb the scalp). But when th pain-sensitive parts-the arteries of the brain and skull , the dura mater that covers the brain and the cranial nerves-are infected, pulled, inflamed, stretched, compressed or irritated, headaches usually result.

Chiropractic and Headaches
Although chiropractic is not a headache therapy, for over a hundred years headache sufferers have benefitted from the drug-free, natural methods used by their neighborhood chiropractors. By eliminating spinal subluxations, chiropractiv permits the entire body to estore itself to a greater level of health and wholeness-in effect, to heal itself. Chiropractic spinal care is essential for anyone who suffers from headaches.