Tension-type headache is the term used to describe chronic headaches without symptoms because the symptoms are caused by a lack of characteristics than migraine or cluster headaches.
Tension-type headache is a chronic disorder that begins after the age of 20 years. It is characterized by attacks fairly frequently (often daily), no throbbing, bilateral occipital headache, not associated with nausea, vomiting, or prodromal visual disturbances.
Tension-type Headache can occur in acute and chronic. Acute Tension-type Headache is when a complaint comes less than 15 days in one month, while the Chronic Tension-type Headache that appearance is more than 15 days for 1 month and this complaint appears for 6 months. TTH duration can last for a few minutes, days, months and years.
Clinical symptoms can be found in the tension-type headache is:
Tension-type headache is a chronic disorder that begins after the age of 20 years. It is characterized by attacks fairly frequently (often daily), no throbbing, bilateral occipital headache, not associated with nausea, vomiting, or prodromal visual disturbances.
Clinical symptoms can be found in the tension-type headache is:
- There are no symptoms; prodromal or aura.
- Pain may be mild to moderate or severe.
- Blunt, such as pressed or tied. Not pulsed.
- Whole or diffuse (not just at one point or one side), the pain is more severe in the area of the scalp, occipital, and back of the neck.
- Occur spontaneously.
- Worsened or triggered by stress and fatigue.
- Their insomnia.
- Irritability.
- Concentration problems.
- Sometimes accompanied by vertigo.
- Some people complain of discomfort areas of the neck, jaw, and the temporomandibular.
- Stress - Appears during the afternoon after a long stressful during work or after the test.
- Lack of sleep / Sleep deprivation.
- Uncomfortable positions that cause stress / incorrect position.
- Meal times were not sure (hungry).
- Eye fatigue.
- Caffeine Withdrawal (Termination by the effects of caffeine).
