Abstract

Headaches have been associated with a certain collection of mental difficulties, including sadness, anxiety, worries, and frenzied issues. If untreated, cranial discomfort and atypical headache attacks may cause nervousness and sorrow due to the victim's sense of helplessness brought on by the pain's irrationality Objective: To find out the prevalence of migraine attacks and its association with neck pain among students of the University of Lahore Methods: Data was collected from 217 students of The The University of Lahore, having migraine and neck pain by using questionnaire of Neck Disability Index and Numerical Pain rating scale for Migraine. The permission was taken from institute and the questions were asked after obtaining consent of student Results: Age distribution among students was 20.88±1.644 years with minimum age of 19yrs and maximum 25 yrs. Out of 217, males with the percentage 28.6 % and 71.4 % females. Students with no migraine were 17.1%, mild migraine were 36.9%, moderate migraine were 27.6% and severe migraine were 18.4%. Out of 217, 7(3.2%) had no neck pain, 6(2.8%) had mild neck pain, 115(53.0%) had moderate neck pain, 74(34.1%) had severe neck pain and 10(4.6%) had very severe neck pain Conclusion: An association between migraine attacks and neck pain was observed.

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