Pain Sensitivity Mediates The Relationship between Stress and Headache Intensity in Chronic Tension-Type Headache

BACKGROUND: A central model for chronic tension-type headache (CTH) posits that stress contributes to headache, in part, by aggravating existing hyperalgesia in CTH sufferers. The prediction from this model that pain sensitivity mediates the relationship between stress and headache activity has not...

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Published in:Pain Research and Management
Main Authors: Stuart Cathcart, Navjot Bhullar, Maarten Immink, Chris Della Vedova, John Hayball
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2012-01-01
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/132830