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We've all experienced the occasional headache, but for many sufferers, the pain interferes with daily life so often that it leaves them discouraged and disabled. Traditionally, headache and migraine patients are treated with drug therapy, which can be expensive, cause significant side effects, and be only partially effective.
For patients who wish to reduce or eliminate their dependence on these medications, a combination of acupuncture and hypnosis has allowed many patients to decrease the frequency of their headaches and to "turn down" or eliminate their headache pain.
Acupuncture allows the body to "turn down" headache pain.
Acupuncture stimulates the release of endorphins, the body's natural pain-killing substance and helps to retrain and subdue the pathways in the brain that have become overstimulated. Hypnosis can help you recognize the changes in your body that signal an oncoming headache, so that you can reduce or eliminate pain before or as it begins. It can also help to reduce stress, a common headache trigger.
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