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Health Encyclopedia: Headaches: Tension Highlights
- Headaches: Tension - Highlights
- Introduction
- Prognosis
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- Risk Factors
- Diagnosis
- Managing Tension-Type Headaches
Highlights
Spinal Manipulation and Physical Therapy
- Physical therapy combined with head and neck muscle exercises may help reduce the frequency, intensity, and duration of tension-type headaches, suggests a 2006 study published in Headache. In the study, patients performed 10-minute exercises twice a day. The exercises involved flexing the head and neck against gentle resistance supplied by a latex band.
- Daily relaxation exercises combined with three osteopathic treatments help reduce the frequency...
Expert & Community Posts
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Stage Two High Blood Pressure: A Hypertension Emergency
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Five-day severe headache?
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8/6/07 #7 - High blood pressure and coldness during Migraines?
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Health Guide
Headaches: Tension: Diagnosis
Diagnosing the cause of persistent daily headache is difficult, even for expert doctors. Studies report that people who visit the emergency room with disabling headache are often... Read more »Sinusitis: Symptoms
...(called double sickening).Other symptoms of acute sinusitis that usually occur in adults include:Severe headache and pain or pressure in specific areas in the face -- eyes may be red, bulging or... Read more »Headaches: Cluster: Diagnosis
In two surveys, patients reported a delay of 1 - 6 years in the diagnosis of their headaches. In one of the surveys, migraine-like symptoms (light and sound sensitivity and nausea) were... Read more »Headaches: Tension: Causes
CausesThere does not appear to be a single cause of chronic tension-type headache. Many factors are likely involved.Muscle Contractions and TendernessOne of the most popular theories on the cause of... Read more »Headaches: Cluster: Causes
CausesCluster headaches, like migraines, are likely due to an interaction of abnormalities in the blood vessels and nerves that affect regions in the face.Abnormalities in the HypothalamusEvidence... Read more »Images
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