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As if you still had any doubt, your triggers may confirm whether you have migraine or a tension headache. Clinical Psychiatry News came up with a list of what triggers seemed to cause what type of attack. Tension and migraine have some in common. For example, if you’re not getting enough sleep, or if you [...]
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This summer Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain reported on a study about children and adolescents and relaxation therapy. The question was, is relaxation training a help for those suffering from tension type headaches and migraine? And what is the best way to get the treatment? Since there are fewer drugs approved for [...]
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There’s reason to be optimistic – for some. That’s what a Danish study in a Neurology article last month tells us. This study started in 1989. Groups of migraine and tension headache sufferers were evaluated, and then reevaluated in 2001. Of the migraineurs, 27% had experienced remission. There was improvement among the rest as well. [...]
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You might be taking the wrong medication, if you are trying to treat the wrong kind of headache. We’ve written here before that sinus headaches are often confused with migraine, but the same is true of tension headache. This past July, at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, Dr Robert Kaniecki reported [...]
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One reason that people finally do see a doctor is because they’re worried that the headache is caused by something "serious", such as a brain tumour. That’s an excellent reason to see a doctor, by the way, if you can’t find any other reason. Let’s not knock it! But most headaches are simply tension headaches. [...]
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