When we ask patients where they have headache, they often reply that besides the head, the cervical spine also feels stiff and sore, and the back of the head, where the collar ligament of the cervical spine meets the skull, hurts, and the muscles in both shoulders also hurt, and the two temples are tight, with boring pain or pressure pain. In fact, these are the clinical manifestations of tension headache. Although tension headache seems to be a headache, when you think about it, it is not the head itself that hurts, but the muscles associated with the head that hurt. Today we will focus on the characteristics and treatment of tension headache. Tension headache is the most common type of primary headache and has a very high clinical incidence. After our observation, we found that copywriters and white-collar office workers have a very high incidence of tension headache because they have to face the computer for a long time and keep one posture. The reason for this epidemiological feature is that we have to analyze the pathogenesis of tension headache first. All headaches are actually related to the compression of nerves, so how do tension headaches come about? When a person works in a posture for a long time, the muscles are in a state of high tension for a long time, and the blood does not circulate, and after a long time, the soft tissues of the muscles and fascia will produce edema. After the edema is produced, the pressure on the peripheral nerves will increase. This nerve compression phenomenon mainly occurs in the neck-related muscles, shoulder-related muscles, and head and face-related muscles. So when this pressure continues for a certain period of time and reaches a certain level, headache symptoms are produced. So although this pain appears in the head, its cause, or culprit, is actually excessive muscle tension, which causes pressure on the nerves. So when patients complain about the nature of the pain, they often also complain about feeling a localized tight pressure, feeling unable to relax. Therefore, we say that tension headache is more favored by white-collar workers because of the long-term nature of this work, and the more people are engaged in this kind of work, the more attention should be paid to avoid the occurrence of tension headache. So what should I do once I get a tension headache? Of course pain medication is one of the options, but through our introduction just now, we can make it clear that pain medication is only a pure allopathic medicine, it does not lift the muscle tension, then the cause is still there, you eat the medicine does not hurt, after a while the pain will come back. So to solve the root of tension headache, the first point is to change the way of life, do not be sedentary for a long time, for example, the office work crowd, an hour to get up for a simple cervical gymnastics, keep the cervical vertebrae over-extension position, that is, backward, so that can effectively relieve the pressure of the muscles related to the neck. In addition, you can do a simple interval exercise, hands should be raised above the head, which can significantly improve the blood circulation of the muscles in the neck and shoulder area. So after we have used these methods, what should we do if we still have headache symptoms? Here we sort out several points commonly used in Chinese medicine and teach you a simple massage exercise. So this simple massage exercise is divided into four points, that is, in four sections to complete. The first point, pat the hundred points. Hundred points is located in the top of our head, that is, we are standing, both eyes look ahead, the head remains straight, the highest point of the head, this part is the Hundred points. Use the index and middle fingers of the right hand to interlock and then use the elasticity of the ligaments of the fingers to gently tap on the top of the hundred points, which can be repeated 40 to 60 times. The hundred points in Chinese medicine is called “three yang five will”, is the body’s yang energy gathering place, pat the hundred points can pass the governor to move the qi, clear the head and eyes, usually after the patient hit the hundred points can feel the head and eyes clear, headache symptoms are also reduced. The second point, press and rub the temple. The temple is exactly where our temporalis muscle is located, this part of the muscle is very easy to tension, especially when you are thinking about the problem, long periods of sedentary, it is always in a tight state. Use the threaded end of the thumbs of our hands on the solar plexus, in a cycle of ten times, first forward for clockwise pressure, pause, backward counterclockwise pressure. Repeat forward ten times, backward ten times, then forward ten times, then backward ten times, a total of 40 times. Then, with eyes closed, adjust the whistle and relax your whole body. The third point to press, rub the Fengchi point. Fengchi point at the back of our neck, under the base of the skull, with the fingers will have a feeling of soreness and swelling, with the thumbs of both hands on top of the Fengchi point, upward pressure, feeling a sense of soreness and swelling, while pressing and kneading. First, press firmly into the cranial area, and when you feel the obvious soreness and swelling, slowly relax the force, and then press clockwise five times. This is repeatedly alternating, a total of five to six cycles will be enough. The last acupuncture point, the large vertebrae point. The large vertebrae point is under the spinous process of our seventh cervical vertebrae, we slightly lower our head, with the hand to feel the back of their neck can feel a high up the bone, this is the general location of the large vertebrae point. We can use the four fingers together, with the belly of the four fingers to gently pat the large vertebrae point, 60 to 80 times, you can obviously relieve the stiffness of the neck symptoms.