Headache

Here is the list of muscles potentially responsible for these pains, a link can be selected for more details on a particular muscle: Temporal muscle Masseter muscle Orbicularis oculi muscle (subscription required) Sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle (subscription

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Here is the list of muscles potentially responsible for these pains, a link can be selected for more details on a particular muscle: Masseter muscle Sternocleidomastoid muscle Lateral pterygoid muscle Medial pterygoid muscle

Here is the list of muscles potentially responsible for these pains, a link can be selected for more details on a particular muscle: Occipito-frontal muscle Sternocleidomastoid muscle (subscription) Semispinatus muscle (subscription) Zygomaticus major muscle (subscription)

A number of muscles in the neck and head can be responsible for pain referred to the temporal part of the head. Trapezius muscle (by subscription). Splenius muscle Sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle (on subscription). Temporal muscle Sub-occipital

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The following muscles may be responsible for pain in the back of the head: Trapezius muscle Semispinatus muscle Splenius muscle of the neck Suboccipital muscles Occipito-frontal muscle Sternocleidomastoid muscle Digastric muscle Temporal muscle

Anatomy of the occipitofrontalis muscle. This muscle is composed of an anterior frontal part and an occipital part (in red). They are attached to an aponeurosis which covers the skull (in yellow) and which slides

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There are 3 main causes of headaches; Primary headaches (without underlying cause) Headache. Tension headache. Vascular cluster headaches. Other rarer pathologies. Secondary headaches. (with underlying causes) Linked to associated illnesses or trauma. Cranial neuralgia and

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Description : Migraine is a pain in the head that is often one-sided, throbbing (painful beating of the “heart” in the head). This pain is often strong, even very strong. It is often accompanied by

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This headache (headache), once considered essentially psychogenic, is very common since it affects between 30% and 78% of the general population. The diagnosis is made after at least ten episodes of headache. These episodes last

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