![]() ![]() Students exposed to academic stress, resulting from academic tests, home works, and other school requirements, which may exceed their abilities to cope with such stressors. Therefore, this age is called the age of stress. Stress is one of the main aspects of our modern life, resulting from the rapid changes in human life. Students can potentially experience different types of stress that can affect their mental and social health and their academic achievement. It also found that 27.7% was the common reported condition in the families of individuals with TTH. Anxiety (27.3%), depression (23.8%), and hypertension (20.5%) were the common comorbid conditions associated with TTH. Nearly 59.22/32.66% had moderate/mild headache attacks. Headache was reported in 35.49% of the individuals. A study was done in Assiut district, Egypt, throughout 1 year (2009), which included 4700 individuals (male = 49.91% females = 50.09%). Most often the pain is felt on both sides of the head. It also may feel as if a belt is being tightened around the head. The pain is usually mild to moderate and feels as if constant pressure is being applied to the front of the face or to the head or neck. TTHs may also be caused by jaw clenching, intense work, missed meals, depression, anxiety, or too little sleep. Its name indicates the role of stress and mental or emotional conflict in triggering the pain and contracting muscles in the neck, face, scalp, and jaw. TTH was previously called muscle contraction headache. TTH is more frequent in women than in men, with five women experiencing TTH for every four men. Chronic stress, which results from the prolonged imbalance between situational requirements and the individual’s coping resources, has been repeatedly found to be related with headaches in adolescents. It is also one of the most neglected headache types, with prevalence of ~ 15–20% in population-based studies. Tension-type headache (TTH) is one of the most frequently reported types of primary headache among adolescents. After applying cryotherapy (ice compresses) in relieving TTH, students feel analgesia, relaxation, increased effort, and alertness, added to that decreased mental tension and recurrence of headache to a minimum level. There is a significant relationship between level of stress and TTH, with diurnal pattern, location, severity, and duration of TTH. ConclusionĪcademic students experience stress appearing as physical and psychological symptoms that affect their daily life activities. Results revealed that there is an association between stress and tension-type headache, as the level of stress increased, the occurrence of tension-type headache increased. ![]() This study aimed to assess tension-type headache, its relation to stress, and how to relieve it by cryotherapy, among academic students. The findings from this study will provide the basis for the formulation of future research questions that can explore the effect of cryotherapy for treatment of many psychological problems, specifically, researches that consider the role of cryotherapy for treatment of physical and psychological problems. Alternative and complementary medicine, as cryotherapy, is effective for relieving physical and psychological pain using ice compresses by placing it at the back of the neck, leads to relief of tension and anxiety, and gives feeling of relaxation and full of energy for doing daily life activities. Tension-type headache and stress are common students’ problems suffering. ![]()
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