Tension headache: Diagnostic EMG approach
B. Valentino, Benediktus Elnath Aldi, T. Valentino
Sep 1, 2001
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Pain Clinic
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Key Takeaway Key Takeaway: TENS treatment effectively reduces muscle hypertonia in tension headache patients, helping to differentiate between tension headaches caused by temporo-mandibular joint dysfunctions and migraines.
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AbstractEMG tests were carried out before and after 30 min of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, either of the trigeminal nerve or of the spinal accessory nerve in a group of patients suffering from tension headache. After TENS hypertonia of most of the muscles disappeared. This test is of value to differentiate tension headache due, for instance, to temporo-mandibular joint dysfunctions from other types of headache such as migraine.
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