As a child, I suffered with headaches and migraines. They often laid me out in bed and I had to be in a dark room for hours on end. Thankfully, for me, they were related to playing football and when I stopped playing, the headaches stopped. But not all children are that lucky…
The National Headache Foundation estimates that over sixty percent of all children suffer from occasional headaches. That equates to over 46 million children who miss more than one million days of school each year because of headaches.
In fact, children with frequent headaches may suffer more in some respects than children with more physically devastating conditions like cancer and arthritis according to a new study. Researchers found headaches can affect children’s emotional development and school performance more than some other serious health problems. The study published in the July issue of Pediatrics, suggests that headaches have a significant impact on children’s overall quality of life. The negative impact of migraine on the children’s quality of life was similar to the effects associated with cancer and arthritis. The children with headaches were adversely affected in all areas of function, including school performance, emotional development, and physical health. In particular, children with migraines reported a higher level of impairment in school and emotional function than children with other chronic diseases.
Let’s face it, everyone, gets headaches, including children. But saying your child has a “normal headache” is like saying your child has a “normal tumor”.
Listen, Basic Neurology tells us that “headaches are frequently caused by compression of cervical nerve roots.” That’s medical speak telling us that headaches are frequently caused by a subluxation… Which you already know a ton about, more than your average doctor, about how bad a subluxation is for the body.
My advise to you is this, if your child is dealing with headaches, don’t give them anything that masks the true cause of the problem. Rather, get your children checked for subluxation by a Chiropractor first. Then take that other route if anything else is necessary,
