Medically reviewed by Smita Patel, DO Key Takeaways Apply a hot or cold compress to the affected area to help relieve tension ...

If you’ve ever finished a long day hunched over a laptop or scrolling on your phone and felt a dull, nagging ache creep from your neck to the back of your head, you’re not alone. Many young ...

CHICAGO -- Inflammation and edema of the trapezius muscles appeared linked to tension and migraine headaches, a small prospective cohort study found. Patients with mixed-type tension and migraine ...

TMJ issues rarely begin in the jaw itself. The small stabilizing muscles under the skull and upper neck share a nerve network ...

Researchers have identified objective evidence of how the neck muscles are involved in primary headaches, according to a new study. Researchers have identified objective evidence of how the neck ...

There’s a saying: pain begets pain. It is used in the context of physical pain, and also when someone inflicts their own psychological pain on others. On the physiological front, mounting research is ...

Researchers have identified objective evidence of how the neck muscles are involved in primary headaches, according to a study being presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society ...

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It appears that patients with tension-type headache (TTH) have relatively weak neck extension muscles, a new study shows. Researchers found that these patients are 26% weaker than controls with ...

Medically reviewed by Scott Zashin, MD Key Takeaways Neck arthritis is common and affects more than 85% of people over the age of 60.Symptoms of neck arthritis include neck pain, stiffness, tingling, ...

Suboccipital headaches often develop due to nerve compression in the back of your neck. You may have sharp or shooting pain in your scalp that can mimic migraine episodes. Your occipital bone is the ...

Whether neck pain actually causes headache or whether the two pain conditions simply coexist isn’t entirely understood. But this much is clear: “People with migraine more frequently have neck pain ...