Tension Headache

Overview :

While most American adults get a tension headache from time to time, women and people with more education are slightly more likely to suffer with them; the female: male ratio is reported to be 1.4: 1. People who are so anxious that they grind their teeth or hunch their shoulders may find that the physical strain in their body can be experienced as pain and tension in the muscles of the neck and scalp, producing almost constant pain.

In terms of age groups, chronic tension headaches have been reported in children younger than six years, but most people report that their tension headaches start in adolescence or the early twenties.