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Tension-type headache

Tension-type headache is a primary neurological headache disorder and the most prevalent form of headache across the general population. Read more about Tension-type headache

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About Tension-type headache.

Tension-type headache is a primary neurological headache disorder and the most prevalent form of headache across the general population.

It is characterized by recurrent episodes of mild-to-moderate, bilateral head pain with a pressing, tightening, non-pulsating band-like sensation that is not aggravated by routine physical activity.

Pathophysiologically, it involves multifactorial mechanisms, combining peripheral myofascial tenderness and muscular tension in episodic forms with central sensitization and impaired antinociceptive pain processing in chronic forms.

Unlike migraine, it typically occurs without autonomic dysfunction, nausea, or vomiting, and it is rarely accompanied by more than one symptom of either photophobia or phonophobia.

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