Vol 43 No. 4
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Author(s):

Teo Hui Ying Valerie

Published in:

The Singapore Family Physician Vol 43 No 4 - Laboratory Medicine

Publication date:

1 October 2017

ISSN:

0377-5305

Abstract

Headaches are one of the commonest neurological disorders with a global lifetime prevalence of 66 percent (1), and 82.7 percent in Singapore (2). Tension type headache (TTH) is the commonest primary headache with a lifetime prevalence of 30-78 percent globally (1). TTH is related to muscular factors (17) thus treatment directed toward muscular factors such as manual therapy can be considered (18). This review is aimed at evaluating the use of manual therapy for TTH.