Patients with symptoms of back of the head pain may be caused by a variety of reasons. 4 common causes include bad habits, trauma, cervical spondylosis, and cardiovascular disease. Patients are recommended to go to the hospital in time for brain CT and other related examinations to clarify the causes and carry out targeted treatment. 1. Bad habits: If patients have bad habits such as prolonged head down, improper sleeping posture, or mental stress, overexertion, not paying attention to neck warmth, etc., so that the muscles and ligaments are overstretched, the symptoms of pain in the back of the head may appear. 2. Trauma: If If the back of the head has been hit, smashed and other trauma, resulting in a certain stimulation of the nerves in the skin, the symptoms of pain in the back of the head may also appear, and in serious cases, there may be local soft tissue contusions or fractures; 3, cervical spondylosis: If the patient suffers from cervical spondylosis, it can lead to the protrusion of the intervertebral discs and compression of the nerves, resulting in headache symptoms, and usually accompanied by the discomfort of soreness and pain in the shoulder and neck; 4, cardiovascular disease. If the patient suffers from blood viscosity, atherosclerosis, hypertension and other cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, it may also cause pain in the back of the head due to insufficient blood supply and oxygen to the brain, which may be accompanied by nausea, vomiting and other symptoms in severe cases. Such patients should seek medical attention in time to clarify the specific primary disease and actively treat the primary disease, usually the headache symptoms can be gradually relieved with the treatment of the primary disease. In addition, diseases such as cold and brain tumor may also cause pain at the back of the head.