Vascular or Tension Headache

Which type of headache do most of your clients encounter?

Headache is a common symptom with a multitude of causes. Headaches can be caused by stress, muscle tension, chemical imbalance, disordered breathing syndromes, nutritional disruption, side effects from medication, vascular dysfunction, sinus disorders, tumors and many more internal and external influences. 

• Vascular type - or fluid pressure with pain experienced as throbbing from the inside of the head out usually classified as migraine although migraine is only one type of vascular headache. 

• Tension type- soft tissue shortening typically called muscle tension headache although as we will learn that headache is more complicated than a short muscle.  This headache is experienced as a squeezing on the outside of the head.