Tension headaches are the most common headache type. They show up as a steady pressure or band-like tightness around the head, often driven by tight muscles in the neck and shoulders.
A tension headache usually feels like a dull, pressing ache on both sides of the head. It can last 30 minutes or stretch across an entire day, and often gets worse as the day goes on.
Most tension headaches are linked to stress, poor sleep, long screen time, and tight neck muscles. When they show up several times a week, they start to feel like a part of daily life. They do not have to be.
Tension headaches look similar from person to person, but the triggers vary. Finding your pattern is the first step toward fewer headache days.
Tension headaches often respond to a mix of muscle-focused treatments and targeted nerve blocks when needed.
Targeted injections into tight muscle knots in the neck, shoulders, and upper back. Usually the fastest way to release the tension feeding your headaches.
Best known for migraine, Botox can also calm chronic tension-type headaches by relaxing the muscles that pull pain into the head.
A quick injection at the base of the skull that quiets the occipital nerves. Often responsible for pain that wraps from the neck up into the head.
When upper neck joints are driving your headaches, a targeted block of the small nerves that supply those joints can bring meaningful relief.
Call us if your headache pattern changes suddenly, if a headache comes on fast and severely, if you develop neurological symptoms like vision changes, weakness, or slurred speech, or if your headaches stop responding to usual remedies.
Tension headaches tend to feel like a steady pressure on both sides of the head, without nausea or sensitivity to light and sound. Migraines are usually one-sided, throbbing, and come with those extra symptoms. Many patients actually have both.
Yes. Stress tightens the muscles across your neck, jaw, and shoulders, and that tension pulls pain into the head. When muscles stay tight for days or weeks, the pain becomes chronic. Targeted treatment can break that loop.
For many patients, trigger point injections every few months, paired with posture and stress work, are enough. Others benefit from a scheduled Botox or nerve block routine. We tailor the plan to your headache pattern.