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Health Encyclopedia: Headaches: Cluster Introduction

Introduction

Most people are familiar with headaches, the all too common affliction marked by throbbing, piercing, or vise-like pain around much or a part of the head. There are many different kinds of headaches, and they range from being an infrequent annoyance to a persistent, severe, and disabling medical condition.

The brain itself is insensitive to pain, so that is not what hurts when a headache arises. Rather, the pain occurs in the following locations:

The tissues covering the brain
The attac...

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Headaches: Tension: Resources

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