More than 80% of tension headache patients also have neck pain and shoulder pain. The pericranial fascia (occipital and temporal muscles) and the cervical muscles are connected, so when one area becomes knotted, it affects the others. If you only use painkillers without correcting cervical alignment, the headache subsides briefly but the neck and shoulder pain persists and the headache recurs.

Dongjedang Integrated Treatment

At Dongjedang, we view tension headache plus neck pain plus shoulder pain as a single neck-stiffness / Qi-stagnation-with-blood-stasis combined pattern and treat them simultaneously with Chuna manual therapy, pharmacopuncture, and herbal medicine. For those who do long hours of desk work in Dong-gu, Incheon, the headache + neck pain + shoulder pain package is the most common reason for visiting. Treating them together produces faster recovery than treating each separately.