General Medical Information

Headache and Facial Pain

Alan G. Finkel
J. Douglas Mann
Thomas F. Lundeen

Pain is the major reason patients seek medical care, and the head and face are the most common locations for pain. Of all the patients who consult a physician for head pain, 90% suffer from vascular headache of the migraine or cluster type, tension headache, or a mixture of the two. The other 10% suffer from conditions leading to inflammation, traction, or dilatation of pain-sensitive structures of the head and neck.