Tension type headaches, whose prevalence is increasing day by day in the high tempo of city life, are more common especially in women.
70% of people experience a headache at some point in their lives.
Headaches rank first among the reasons for consulting a doctor all over the world.
It is more common in people who are prone to stress and stress.
Tension type headache: It is mostly expressed as heaviness, pressure, compression in the head.
The pain usually starts from the neck region and rises to the top of the head, spreads to the temples and is compressive.
There is an underlying psychosocial tension that usually occurs with the continuous stretching of the face, head and neck muscles. These patients diagnose themselves as migraine. However, the mechanism and treatment method of tension-type headache is different from migraine. Visual disturbances and other symptoms that can be seen before the pain in migraine are absent in tension-type headaches and they want to go out into the open air instead of seeking a dark and quiet environment as in migraine patients
In the diagnosis of tension-type headache: in the muscles of the head, neck and shoulder region. The presence of trigger points and the emergence of reflected pain by applying pressure to these muscles is an important finding.
Tension-type headache increases as the day progresses and may persist for days.
Patients have a depressed mood and facial expression. There may be complaints such as difficulty concentrating and insomnia. Nausea and vomiting may also occur, although not as much as in migraine patients.
Migraine and tension-type headache can be seen together in some patients.
In the treatment of tension-type headache: It is possible to relax the muscles and control the pain by making injections to the trigger points detected in the neck and shoulder region.
