Chronic tension headache belongs to the common type of functional headache, mostly caused by mental factors, and its main manifestation is a persistent dull pain in an indeterminate location, accompanied by anxiety, insomnia and other symptoms.
Chronic tension headache is defined as headache lasting 3 months doctor, more than 15 times per month on average, or more than 180 times per year, according to whether there is pressure pain, can be categorized as chronic tension headache with or without pericranial pressure pain. Its main symptom is persistent dull pain in the head, presenting a sense of pressure, often accompanied by dizziness, insomnia, anxiety and other mental symptoms.
Chronic tension headache treatment often take drugs, physical therapy and other ways, in the acute attack period, you can use non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, such as ketone-based ibuprofen and other analgesic; anxiety and other psychiatric symptoms, you can use tricyclic antidepressants such as amitriptyline; in the usual to develop the correct sitting posture, sleeping posture, and often massage the neck, to reduce the attack of the disease.
In short, suspected chronic tension headache, should promptly go to the hospital, under the guidance of the doctor for treatment.