Does neck pain cause headaches and migraine attacks or the other way around? An expert answers questions about neck pain.

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 ...

It appears that patients with tension-type headache (TTH) have relatively weak neck extension muscles, a new study shows. Researchers found that these patients are 26% weaker than controls with ...

Emotional stress often leads to unconscious tensing of shoulder and neck muscles. Sedentary routines, inadequate breaks, and improper workstation setups can also limit blood circulation to these areas ...

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 ...

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 ...

An exertion headache, also called an exercise headache, is triggered by physical activities such as running. Learn why an ...

Exemplary cases for trapezius muscle segmentations. (A) Segmentation masks of the bilateral trapezius muscles (red areas) in a 25-year-old female and (B) in a 24-year-old male. CHICAGO – Researchers ...

A neurosurgeon highlighted two critical headache symptoms to watch for: sudden, intense 'thunderclap' pain and headaches that ...

Meningitis refers to swelling in the membranes that surround your brain and spinal cord. This type of inflammation affects your nervous system. Meningitis can be viral or bacterial, and symptoms of ...