A tension headache is a common form of headache. Tension headaches affect the head, eyes and nearby areas of the body. They are very common with adults. Females are twice as likely as males to have them.[1]
Tension headaches may be caused by:
References
- ↑ "Tension Headaches". WebMD. Retrieved Feb 3, 2014.
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| Primary | | ICHD 1 | |
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| ICHD 2 | |
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| ICHD 3 |
- Cluster
- Chronic paroxysmal hemicrania
- SUNCT
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| ICHD 4 |
- Hemicrania continua
- Thunderclap headache
- Sexual headache
- New daily persistent headache
- Hypnic headache
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| Secondary | | ICHD 5 | |
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| ICHD 7 |
- Ictal headache
- Post-dural-puncture headache
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| ICHD 8 |
- Hangover
- Medication overuse headache
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| ICHD 13 |
- Trigeminal neuralgia
- Occipital neuralgia
- External compression headache
- Cold-stimulus headache
- Optic neuritis
- Postherpetic neuralgia
- Tolosa–Hunt syndrome
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| Other |
- Eye strain
- Orthostatic
- Vascular
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| Inflammation | | Brain |
- Encephalitis
- Viral encephalitis
- Herpesviral encephalitis
- Limbic encephalitis
- Encephalitis lethargica
- Cavernous sinus thrombosis
- Brain abscess
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| Brain and spinal cord | |
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Brain/
encephalopathy | | Degenerative | Extrapyramidal and
movement disorders | |
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| Dementia |
- Tauopathy
- Frontotemporal dementia/Frontotemporal lobar degeneration
- Lewy bodies dementia
- Posterior cortical atrophy
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| Mitochondrial disease | |
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| Demyelinating |
- Autoimmune
- Inflammatory
- Multiple sclerosis
- For more detailed coverage, see Template:Demyelinating diseases of CNS
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Episodic/
paroxysmal | |
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| CSF |
- Intracranial hypertension
- Hydrocephalus
- Normal pressure hydrocephalus
- Choroid plexus papilloma
- Idiopathic intracranial hypertension
- Cerebral edema
- Intracranial hypotension
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| Other |
- Brain herniation
- Reye syndrome
- Hepatic encephalopathy
- Toxic encephalopathy
- Hashimoto's encephalopathy
- Static Encephalopathy
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| Both/either | | Degenerative | | SA |
- Friedreich's ataxia
- Ataxia–telangiectasia
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| MND |
- UMN only:
- Primary lateral sclerosis
- Pseudobulbar palsy
- Hereditary spastic paraplegia
- LMN only:
- Distal hereditary motor neuronopathies
- Spinal muscular atrophies
- SMA
- SMAX1
- SMAX2
- DSMA1
- Congenital DSMA
- Spinal muscular atrophy with lower extremity predominance (SMALED)
- SMALED1
- SMALED2A
- SMALED2B
- SMA-PCH
- SMA-PME
- Progressive muscular atrophy
- Progressive bulbar palsy
- Fazio–Londe
- Infantile progressive bulbar palsy
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