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Article: Non-migraine headaches.
- Article from:
- Nutrition Health Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 1994
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Although tension-type headaches and cluster headaches sometimes are induced by factors characteristics of migraine triggers and often produce severe pain, symptoms determine the classifications. They are headaches of their own; migraine is an illness that has headache as one of its symptoms.
Tension-type headaches account for about 90 percent of all headaches; they are characterized by dull, tight, squeezing pain around the back of the neck, scalp, and forehead. Migraine headaches are more intense.
Tension-type headaches differ from migraines in another respect. Whereas migraines occur periodically, lasting from 30 minutes to 7 days, chronic ...