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

Stuart Cathcart; Navjot Bhullar; Maarten Immink; Chris Della Vedova; John Hayball

doi:10.1155/2012/132830

Pain Research and Management (Jan 2012)

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

Stuart Cathcart,
Navjot Bhullar,
Maarten Immink,
Chris Della Vedova,
John Hayball

Affiliations

Stuart Cathcart: Centre for Applied Psychology, Faculty of Health, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia
Navjot Bhullar: Centre for Health Initiatives, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
Maarten Immink: School of Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Chris Della Vedova: School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
John Hayball: School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/132830
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 17, no. 6
pp. 377 – 380

Abstract

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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 yet been examined.

Published in Pain Research and Management

ISSN: 1203-6765 (Print); 1918-1523 (Online)
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Medicine (General)
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/7040

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