Five benefits of treating chronic headaches with aquatic therapy

Treating Chronic Headaches with Aquatic Therapy

Pounding pain in your head. Blurred vision. A wave of fatigue. It’s likely that you’ve experienced these and other headache symptoms before.

After all, it’s estimated that 96% of us will have at least one headache in our lifetime. Most of the time, headaches go away within a few hours and can easily be treated at home. However, if you suffer from chronic headaches, then you should consider getting help from a physical therapist. 

Many of the treatments used by physical therapists can help you find relief from your chronic headaches. One of the methods that can offer benefits when included in your chronic headache treatment plan is aquatic therapy.

How aquatic therapy treatments can benefit your chronic headaches

The primary goal behind including aquatic therapy in chronic headache treatment plans is to relieve the tension in the areas that are causing you pain. For chronic headache sufferers, most of the pain stems from your neck.

Relieving the pain and tension in your neck is so much easier to achieve in water-based therapy than it is in traditional land-based therapies. The reason is that aquatic therapy takes advantage of the natural buoyancy of our bodies in water.

Including aquatic therapy in your treatment plan could produce a wide array of benefits for you and your chronic headaches. These benefits may include:

  1. Reducing the amount of stress on your neck muscles
  2. Promoting neck relaxation and spinal decompression
  3. Increasing blood flow to the neck region
  4. Enhancing your healing process
  5. Decreasing headache frequency

Border Therapy Services offers chronic headache treatment that can benefit you

A treatment plan that includes aquatic therapy may allow you the chance to find relief from your chronic headaches for good. At least, that’s the goal we have for our physical therapy plans at Border Therapy Services. We’ll start by performing a free screening on you to pinpoint the source of your headaches. Then, our top-notch physical therapists will create a personalized therapy plan for you that’s intended to reduce your symptoms and headache frequency. 

Can’t make it into one of our clinics for an in-person session? That’s OK! Our team offers therapy services that you can use from home, including virtual therapy and at-home care sessions. Even better, you can start coming to us for therapy if you don’t have a doctor’s referral. 

Take the next step to start getting our help with your chronic headaches. Contact us today for more information about our services or to schedule an initial appointment.