Objective To observe the clinical effect of myofascial release on treatment of patients with chronic tention headache. Methods A total of 100 patients with chronic tention headache, admitted to our hospital from January 2012 and January 2014 and met the inclusion criteria, were chosen in our study; According to the will of the patients, they were divided into treatment group (n=50) using myofascial release and control group (n=50) with traditional massage. The treatment time was 30 min per day for 5 days as a therapeutic cycle, interval for 2 days to continue the next cycle, and they received treatment for a total of 8 weeks. The headache index, syndrome improvement, changes of headache times and headache impact scale-6 scores were recorded and analyzed;the clinical efficacies of these two treatment methods were compared. Results The treatment efficacy of treatment group was significantly better as compared with that of control group in the aspects of total effective rate (96%vs. 76%, x2=4.757, P=0.004), changes of headache index (11.11±10.28 vs. 19.37±10.56, t=3.963, P=0.000), changes of headache times at three months after treatment (12.06±5.86 vs. 15.35±6.02, t=2.770, P=0.007) and changes of headache impact-6 scores (44.58±6.50 vs. 52.81±8.02, t=5.637, P=0.000). Conclusion Myofacial release has better efficacy than traditional massage in treating chronic tention headache; the method of myofacial release is simple and easy to apply, with good value of clinical applications.