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Health Encyclopedia: Headaches: Tension Lifestyle Changes

Lifestyle Changes

Good health habits -- including adequate sleep, healthy diet, regular exercise, and good stress management -- are important, along with the following specific measures for headache management. Quitting smoking is essential in reducing the risks for all headaches.

Pressure, Heat, and Cold

An ancient and potentially effective remedy for tension headaches uses pressure applied to the head (such as a headband or a towel wrapped around the head) plus either heat or cold. In one 2000 st...

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Expert & Community Posts

Help in Columbia - Preventative and pain medications that actually work?

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...actually work without head "pressure" or rebound headaches. Some of my triggers are actually... Read more »

Post IV Therapy Update

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...few days before I was leaving for the American Headache Society Conference with Teri. My... Read more »

Migraine and Headache Questions - week of 05/28/07

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Do you have questions about headaches or Migraines? Many of our readers do, and each week, and Dr.... Read more »

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My Pain

...our heads together, we can make this pain soar away. If we take the time to ponder, we can make this headache pay. The pressure keeps on building. The tears are sliding down my face. I can not... Read more »

Managing a Stroke

...strokes. Early symptoms of increased brain pressure are drowsiness, confusion, lethargy, weakness, and headache. Medications such as mannitol may be given during a stroke to reduce pressure or the... Read more »

Headaches: Tension: Highlights

...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... Read more »

Headaches: Cluster: Risk Factors

Cluster headaches are rare, affecting less than 1% of the population.Cluster Headaches in Men. Cluster headaches are much more common in men than in women, about 85% of cluster headache... Read more »

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 »

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