Talk:Tension headache

message: Does the International Headache Society have enough traction to get a substantial portion of the medical community calling these 'tension-type' headaches?  If not, they probably don't deserve mention in the first sentence of the article. -Toptomcat 22:17, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Renaming

message: Everyone will have at least one tension headache in their lifetime. — This statement isn't necessarily true Carnivorous caveman 04:54, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Having Headaches 

message: I removed the following from the Pain and Possible Symptoms section:
Pain arising from tension in the neck can often be identified by comparing any pain caused by coughing or sneezing normally with that which arises while pressing with one's hand against the forehead (which reduces the tension placed on the muscles at the back of the neck). If the pain is less it suggests that muscular tension in the neck is the cause of the headache.
Reasons: 
* The statement of the test interpretation is completely ambiguous. "If the pain is less" could be interpreted either that the first pain is less than the second pain or vice versa. 
* No citation was given showing where this test came from or showing it to be accurate or meaningful.
* I researched trying to find a clearer statement of this test and its interpretation (my first preference being to merely clarify the statement) and could find no reliable source to suggest this test be performed for any reason.  Several reliable medical articles on diagnosing headaches and differentiating one type of headache from another contained no such test or suggestion of this type of test, while the only references I could find to this test have the exact same wording and ambiguity, leading me to believe that they took it from this article or supplied the initial entry based on original research.
If someone can clarify the test interpretation and provide a citation, I would be happy to see that put in the article.
Jgro 15:10, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pain and Possible Symptoms 

message: Is the comment on acupuncture really necessary?  Usually something not working is not relevant unless there is widespread belief that it does work.  --Banyan (talk) 01:02, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Right now there is a nice Cochrane review which describes the effectiveness of this treatment.  Blue Rasberry (talk) 19:40, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Acupuncture 

message: I just added information in the treatment and prevention sections of this article from this source.
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This is a source at the edge of WP:MEDRS. What I added is a consumer perspective of what happens during treatment, starting with basics (stress relief and drinking water) to over the counter treatments on to visits to the doctor. What I added ends around the point when a health care provider begins to be involved, and where more academic MEDRS sources would begin.  Blue Rasberry (talk) 20:43, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Health information from a consumer source 

message: Hello I am a 4th year medical student currently taking a course called Wikiproject, which was set up to allow for medical students to put efforts towards improving wikipedia pages about medical topics. This is just one course devoted to the larger goal of Wikiproject medicine. Over the next four weeks of this course I will be helping to structure and add information to this page. I am pursuing neurology as my specialty and I am very interested in headache/migraine. This article has some good information and my goal is to help add more content to this high importance topic and to improve the overall C-class rating. I hope to add/improve the following sections:
1. Add a classification section. Currently, under signs and symptoms there is sub-classification of tension headache mentioned. Moving this content and adding some more information about the subtypes to a separate classification system will hopefully improve structure and flow of the article. 
2. Potentially add a brief diagnosis section including patient friendly explanation of workup/evaluation and differential diagnosis. 
3. Breakdown the causation section into simpler terms for better audience understanding. The article details the believed pathophysiology, but some terms may be too scientific for the lay person to understand or just need further breakdown. I would also like to replace with more current information. Add in citations from systematic review and meta-analysis study material.
 
4. Add content to the treatment section. This section has a nice broad overview of available medications and does a good job covering different types of manual therapy. I would like to bolster this section by adding some more content and explanation of the available medications. I would also like to add more current information to the manual therapy section and discuss briefly information regarding other alternative modalities such as acupuncture (already mentioned) and mindfulness/stress reduction techniques. 
Any suggestions are welcomed and thank you for your help!
Ucfmed2019 (talk) 02:45, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikiproject Medicine

message: Amazing job organizing and updating this article! The citations are appropriately placed, and I found all of the links to be functional. I really liked how the subsections were organized with bullet points rather than long, wordy paragraphs. I think it's a lot easier to read and follow when it's concise like that.
The expansion on the classification section looks great, and I think it's definitely explained in a way that would be understandable to everyone. For the sentence defining CTTH, I would maybe add a comma after "three months" and after "one-hundred eight days or more" so that the distinction between the two criteria is clearer. Same thing with the frequent TTH definition, I would maybe reword it or add commas to make it a little bit easier to understand. Maybe the first part can read "[...]ten or more episodes of headache over the course of fourteen days per month for more than three months, or at least twelve days per year. However, it must be less than one-hundred eight days per year." or something.
In the "Overview of Pathophysiology of ETTH and CTTH" section under "Mechanism", there is a typo in the sentence that starts with, "Peripheral pain pathways receive pain signals from [...]" where it says "like" instead of "likely". Further down in that same section, there is a typo in the sentence that starts with, "It is then these prolonged alterations in the peripheral pain pathways[...]" that should say, "that lead" instead of "lead". In that same sentence, adding a comma after "central nervous system pain pathways" would help with making seem less like a run-on.
In the "Diagnosis" section, I would add a comma after "muscles" in the first sentence to separate the 3 "or's". The differential diagnosis list is awesome! I would maybe add links to some of those differentials' Wiki pages [for the ones that have ones, like "medication overuse headache"]. 
I really like the treatment section; it's thorough and concise at the same time. It provides multiple approaches and just enough to explain each of them. To clarify, did all of the info in the "Treatment of CTTH" section's first paragraph come from one source? In the next paragraph that same source is then cited twice, so wasn't sure how citations were being structured here.
Overall, awesome job!!! It's extremely thorough and well organized, and it's simple to read!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Smangal06 (talk • contribs) 03:23, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Feedback for WikiProject Edits