Tension Headache

Tension Type Headache
One of the most commonly treated complaints in chiropractic offices is headache. While there are many types of headaches with varying causes, the most common type is the Muscular Tension Headache.
Tension headaches often feel like a band of pressure around your head. Your head may feel like it's being held in a vice. If you have a really bad tension headache, you may even experience nausea. Tension headache pain is usually on both sides of the head, though it may be on one side like migraine. Tension headache rarely throbs like a migraine would

About 90% of the headaches are tension headaches.  Tension headaches are usually caused by the contracting of the layer of muscle around your skull, which in turn can decrease blood flow to your head.  That's why you'll feel a band of pressure around your head, and that steady pain typical in tension headaches.

The findings reported in the 1998 Medical and Health Annual printed by the Encyclopedia Brittannica states: "Spinal manipulation as a treatment for tension headache is predicated upon the assumption that dysfunction in the neck muscles contributes to (the) head pain: in the U.S. 90% of such procedures are performed by chiropractors. The muscle-dura connection may represent, at least in part, the underlying anatomic basis for the effectiveness of this treatment. Such treatment, as performed by a chiropractor, would decrease muscle tension and thereby reduce or eliminate pain by reducing the potential forces exerted on the dura via the muscle-dura connection."




 

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rel=”author”>Masoud Shamaeizadeh