Tension Headache Preventive Medication

Abstract

Tension headache is, perhaps, an unfortunate choice of terms because it implies that tension in the patient’s life is at the root of the headache. Although stress and tension are important contributing factors toward daily headaches, they do not, by themselves, cause daily headaches. There needs to be a predisposition toward headache. The vast majority of patients with daily headaches also experience episodic migraine headaches.