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What Is It/ |
How Is It Recognized/ |
Is Massage indicated |
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Condition Name |
What Are They? |
How Are They Recognized? |
or Contraindicated? |
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Headaches
are pain caused |
Tension
headaches may be bilateral |
Massage
is systemically contrain- |
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by
any number of sources, |
and
generally painful. Vascular |
dicated
for headache due to in- |
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muscular
tension is the |
headaches
are often unilateral and |
fection
or CNS disturbance. Mas- |
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most
common source of |
have
a distinctive "throbbing" pain |
sage
is indicated for vascular |
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pain;
congestive headaches |
from
blood flow into the head. |
headaches
in the subacute |
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are
less common; and |
Headaches
brought about by cen- |
stage.
Massage is indicated |
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headaches
due to serious |
tral
nervous system disease are ex- |
for
tension headaches. |
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underlying
pathology are |
treme,
severe, and prolonged. They |
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the
rarest of all. |
can
have a sudden or gradual onset. |
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