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Understanding Headache Types and Causes by Alma Sunagawa is a document available to read on EtoBox.
Headaches are a common symptom that can have many causes related to structures in the head and neck becoming irritated or damaged. The brain itself cannot feel pain, but surrounding tissues like muscles, blood vessels and sinuses contain pain receptors. Psychogenic pain is pain that is mentally or emotionally driven and is considered a real experience. There are many factors that can influence pain perception like genetics, ethnicity, and sex. Common causes of headaches at work include stress, lack of sleep
- Author
- Alma Sunagawa
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- EN