If you have ever felt a throbbing headache that starts at the base of your skull and travels up your head, your neck might be to blame. A lesser-known but significant cause of headaches is ...

There’s a saying: pain begets pain. It is used in the context of physical pain, and also when someone inflicts their own psychological pain on others. On the physiological front, mounting research is ...

The Headache Map: What Does Pain in Different Areas of Your Head Mean? Here's how the location of headache can—and can't—help you evaluate your overall health. You can't always trust your pain. The ...

Researchers have identified objective evidence of how the neck muscles are involved in primary headaches, according to a new study. Researchers have identified objective evidence of how the neck ...

Suboccipital headaches often develop due to nerve compression in the back of your neck. You may have sharp or shooting pain in your scalp that can mimic migraine episodes. Your occipital bone is the ...

A headache, along with neck pain, dizziness, and fatigue, can be debilitating. These symptoms can develop as a result of cervical headaches and migraine. They can also occur alongside more severe ...

CHICAGO -- Inflammation and edema of the trapezius muscles appeared linked to tension and migraine headaches, a small prospective cohort study found. Patients with mixed-type tension and migraine ...

Headaches are one of the most common and frustrating problems people deal with - affecting almost half the population at some point in their lives. If you get them regularly, you already know how much ...

It always starts on the right side of my neck, a single, deep spot that hurts so much that I press on it as hard as I can, thinking that will somehow loosen the knot and ease the pain. People often ...