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There are many causes and types of headaches: Tension and Chronic Daily Headache, Cervicogenic Headache, Migraine, Sinus Headache, Cluster Headache. See links for headache charts: www.nlm.nih.gov, www.nlm.nih.gov
Tension Headaches constitute 90% of all headaches. Symptoms consist of persistent pain like a steel band around the head, and/or on the top of the skull. Mental stress, anxiety, eyestrain, as well as muscle tension from the jaw, neck, shoulders can cause pain that radiates up to the head.
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Patients with tension headaches usually get the headache as the day progresses and do not wake up with the headache. There is no associated nausea, vomiting or sensitivity to light with a tension headache.
Treatment: Most people rely on some type of oral pain reliever such as Ibuprofen, Excedrin or Tylenol. Another approach is to consider the possible causes of tension and make adjustments to reduce them.
Some causes might be: eye strain due to excess light or glare, eyestrain when your glasses are in need of replacement; neck strain as a result of looking up instead of straight at your computer screen, neck strain from raising one's head to adjust focus while wearing bifocals, poor posture causing
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