Head dull, non-pulsating

Head dullness and non-pulsation are one of the clinical features of tension headache. Blunt pain: The pain is slow and persistent. It is a summary of a variety of pains (such as soreness, tenderness, etc.). It is more common in headaches caused by chronic diseases and is caused by insensitive pain-causing tissues. Tension headache (TTH) is the most common type of headache, and it is generally considered to have a higher prevalence than migraine, accounting for about half of the outpatient headaches. TTH is a diagnosis developed by the International Headache Society (IHS) in 1998 in the "Classification and Diagnostic Criteria for Headache Diseases, Neuralgia and Facial Pain", and its name is now widely used internationally. TTH includes the contents of muscle contractile headaches and mental headaches in the headache classification by the AdHoc Committee in 1962. In the new classification, TTH is further divided into two subtypes based on the time of headache onset and perianal muscle disorders: ① episodic tension-type (ETTH). ② Chronic tension-type (CTTH).

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