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Chronic Headache: How to Deal

Nearly everyone has experienced a headache at some point in their lifetime, and typically it goes away within a few hours, or in the worst case scenario, a few days. After a nasty headache, the best feeling in the world is getting rid of it. Those who don’t deal well with headaches are typically willing to do just about anything to get rid of it, as well as doing their best to avoid them. Those less fortunate are plagued with chronic headaches, and have to deal with them on a constant basis. These chronic headaches can be as spread out over a few weeks or as close together as every few hours with little break in between.

How to Get Rid Of Tension Headaches

Tension headaches may be the most common kind of headache in developed countries. Quite unlike the single-side grinding pain of migraines, tension headaches create a dull, throbbing ache or sometimes a sharp throbbing pain, usually on both sides of the head. Tension headaches are caused by stress. Sometimes sensory overexposure like bright lights and loud noises can bring on an attack.

Tension Headache - The Most Common Form of Head Pain

Fast Facts about Tension Headaches
Tension headaches occur more frequently that any other type of headache.

Headache: Hope Through Research

For 2 years, Jim suffered the excruciating pain of cluster headaches. Night after night he paced the floor, the pain driving him to constant motion. He was only 48 years old when the clusters forced him to quit his job as a systems analyst. One year later, his headaches are controlled. The credit for Jim's recovery belongs to the medical staff of a headache clinic. Physicians there applied the latest research findings on headache, and prescribed for Jim a combination of new drugs.

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What is Headache?
A headache happens when pain-sensitive nerve fibers (called nociceptors) are triggered in the network of nerves that extends over the scalp, face, and along the surface and the base of the brain. Ninety percent of all headaches are triggered by stress or tension. These muscle contraction headaches usually resolve on their own or with the help of over-the-counter painkillers. Other types of headache have different triggers and are not as easily treated. Doctors classify headaches as belonging to one of the following classes:

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