Tension in the neck muscles is the most common cause of headache and although the pain is often felt in the forehead or over the top of the head, it actually comes from contraction and spasm of the muscles in the neck. Next lime you get a tension headache, run your fingers up and down the muscles on either side of the back of your neck, from the angle where your neck meets your shoulders right up to the underside of your skull, at the hack. Almost certainly you will find sore spots – areas of muscle that are particularly lender, and feel very solid. Just touching these areas may cause you pain – massaging them makes you go through the root!
Tense muscles like this cause headaches, and the root cause of tension headache is muscular tension and spasm in the muscles of the head and neck. Sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it Except that the spasm can he so great (hat it can even Imitate a migraine, with pain boring through the eye socket. Usually, however, the headache from muscle tension is much less severe than this; it’s a continuous ache, which is upsetting more because of the length of time it continues, than because of its intensity.

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