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7               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about tension-type headache and death from tension-type headache.
Meaning of tension-type headache
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, tension-type headache:
(a)           means a condition in which within a 12 month period, there are episodes of headache lasting at least 30 minutes, occurring on at least one day per month for at least three consecutive months, and a minimum of ten episodes occur within that 12 month period; and
(b)           has at least two of the following characteristics:
                (i)            bilateral location;
                (ii)         pressing/tightening (nonpulsating) quality;
                (iii)       mild or moderate intensity;
                (iv)        not aggravated by routine physical activity (such as walking or climbing stairs); and
(c)           causes clinically significant distress or impairment of social, occupational, educational, or other important areas of functioning; and
(d)          excludes:
(i)            cluster headache;
(ii)         migraine;
(iii)       headache attributable to structural abnormalities or inflammatory disorders of the head and neck;
(iv)        headache attributable to systemic disease; and
(v)          headache that results from normal physiological stress such as exercise, or the temporary effect of extraneous agents.
(3)          While tension-type headache attracts ICD‑10‑AM code G44.2, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of tension-type headache is that given in subsection (2).
(4)          For subsection (3), a reference to an ICD-10-AM code is a reference to the code assigned to a particular kind of injury or disease in The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM), Tenth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2017, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978-1-76007-296-4.
Death from tension-type headache
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, tension-type headache, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's tension-type headache.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.