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To the Editor: In his article on chronic daily headache (Jan. 12 issue),¹ Dodick did not address one condition that, in my experience as a neurologist in the management of chronic pain and headache, is the most common form of headache seen in the clinic. That condition is chronic daily headache associated with muscle tension (chronic tension-type headache) with periodic migrainous features. This type of headache is often included in the category of migraine or transformed migraine but is characterized by a background of daily headache with tender, tight muscle bands in the head, neck, and shoulder muscles (muscle trigger . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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