FOX31 Denver
Treating Migraines
Denver Headache and Spine Center and Dr. Randy James featured on the Fox 31 Denver evening news. Shaul Turner reports on migraines and how women are especially prone to them. Many patients don't respond to drug therapy and many people are turning to alternative medicine.
Often times pain is the result of damage to one or more cervical vertebra (neck bones). Proper treatment of this damage reduces the frequency, intensity, and duration of pain. In other words a patient is expected to notice pain less often, and if they do it's not as bad and does not last as long.
The anatomy at the base of the skull is delicate and unfortunately can be injured easily. In fact, some patients cannot remember how they actually hurt themselves. It may be one event or may be the cumulative effect of several events. Some of the most common causes of neck pain and headaches seen at the Denver Headache and Spine Center are from:
Car accidents
Contact sports
Skiing/ Snowboarding
Horseback riding
Poor posture/ Repetitive stress
Slip and fall
The onset of symptoms can be immediate, but often times is more insidious or gradual. Some people start to develop pain years after an injury that they thought was trivial at the time.
Dr. Randy James has successfully completed extensive post graduate training that allows him to specialize in a non-surgical, FDA cleared, painless procedure aimed minimizing headache and neck pain. There are roughly 600 board certified doctors worldwide performing this procedure. As of 2015 there are three doctors in the state of Colorado, two of which are at the Denver Headache and Spine Center facility.