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The correlation of pain intensity, functional impaqirment and depressive symptoms in tension type headache patients

Tension type headache is the most common type of headache. Although for most patients it is not a aerious medical condition, it is the main cause of analgesics use in the general population. The aim of this study was to evaluate the intensity and other qualities of pain as well as the influence of pain on impairments in everyday life activities, the presence of depressive symptoms and their correlation to pain intensity in patients with tension type headache.The tension type headache is a cronic pain condition, probably the consequence and not the cause od depressive symptoms.

pain; pain intensity; functional impairment; depression symptoms; tension type headache

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