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Health Encyclopedia: Headaches: Tension Introduction
- Headaches: Tension - Introduction
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- Risk Factors
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- Managing Tension-Type Headaches
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. The pain, instead, occurs in the following locations:
- The tissues covering the brain
- The att...
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