Headaches treatment Wokingham, Berkshire

Headaches are one of the most common types of pain a person can experience. People will often take a pain killer to resolve their headache. Pain killers are one of the most bought medications in the world. The original pain killer, aspirin, originates from herbal medicine, the bark of the willow tree.

Causes of headaches

People will often think they have a headache because they haven't drunk enough water and sometimees this is the case. However, more often than not, a headache is not caused by dehydration but actually is caused by stress or tiredness.

Pain is a messenger, the body telling us that it's not in balance and not happy. We tend to shoot the messenger with pain killers rather than listening to the pain and let it show us what's wrong with our lives. Often we need to do less, relax more and rest more. However, our minds don't like to do less or rest, so they force the body to carry on, causing headaches.

Acupuncture for headaches

Acupuncture is very effective as treating headaches.

Acupuncture can help headaches by:

• increasing endorphins and neuropeptide Y levels, which can help to combat negative affective states
• stimulating nerves located in muscles and other tissues, which leads to release of endorphins and other neurohumoral factors, and changes the processing of pain in the brain and spinal cord
• reducing inflammation, by promoting release of vascular and immunomodulatory factors
• increasing local microcirculation, which aids dispersal of swelling

Our headache acupuncturist

Dr (TCM) Attilio D'Alberto BM (Beijing), BSc (Hons) TCM, MBAcC, MATCM, MAAC

Dr (TCM) Attilio D'Alberto has been treating headaches problems for over 20 years and has great success in treating all types of headaches and migraines.

Dr (TCM) D'Alberto graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine from Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in China after completing their five year, full time medical degree program.

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