Autonomic Dysfunction Headache

Headaches come in many forms, but some are harder to identify than others. If you’ve had frequent or chronic head pain that doesn’t respond to typical treatments, or that comes with dizziness, facial flushing, or a racing heartbeat, you may be dealing with something deeper than a standard tension headache.

Your autonomic nervous system controls the body functions you don’t think about, like heart rate, blood pressure, and digestion. When that system is out of balance, it can produce a distinctive type of head pain. It often starts with stress, trauma, or spinal misalignment, things we work with every day.

At Cavanaugh Chiropractic in Lafayette, we see patients struggling with this type of head pain more often than you might think, and we focus on the spinal and nervous-system factors that can be driving it.