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Health Encyclopedia: Headaches: Cluster Introduction
- Headaches: Cluster - Introduction
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- Cluster Headaches
- Causes
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- Risk Factors
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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
www.headaches.org -- National Headache Foundationwww.achenet.org -- American Council for Headache Educationwww.americanheadachesociety.org -- American Headache Societywww.aan.com -- American... Read more »Headaches: Cluster: Resources
www.i-h-s.org -- International Headache Societywww.headaches.org -- National Headache Foundationwww.americanheadachesociety.org -- American Headache Societywww.achenet.org -- American... Read more »Headaches: Tension: 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... 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 »Back Pain and Sciatica: Risk Factors
...be noted, however, that a number of medical conditions, such as lung and heart problems and chronic headaches, commonly occur with low back pain, but a causal relationship is uncertain.Muscular... Read more »Images
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