BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Occipital neuralgia syndrome can cause severe refractory
headaches. In a small percentage of people, these headaches can be devastating and …

OBJECT Occipital neuralgia (ON) causes chronic pain in the cutaneous distribution of the
greater and lesser occipital nerves. The long-term efficacy of cervical dorsal root rhizotomy …

Occipital neuralgia (ON) presents a diagnostic challenge because of the wide variety of
symptoms, surgical findings, and postsurgical outcomes. Surgical removal of the second …

✓ To minimize the sensory loss associated with intradural posterior rhizotomy for medically
refractory occipital neuralgia, partial sectioning of the upper cervical posterior rootlets was …

The term occipital neuralgia was first used in 1821 to describe a characteristic pain in the
region innervated by the greater occipital nerve. Since that time numerous authors have …

Occipital neuralgia is defined by the International Headache Society as paroxysmal shooting
or stabbing pain in the dermatomes of the greater or lesser occipital nerve. Various …

Occipital neuralgia is a result of neuropathic pain transmission in the distribution of the
greater occipital nerve. Because it is well anatomically localized, occipital neuralgia has …

Objectives. To evaluate a new surgical treatment consisting of neurolysis of the great
occipital nerve and section of the inferior oblique muscle. Design. A retrospective study of 10 …

The aim of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of greater occipital nerve
decompression for the management of occipital neuralgia. Eleven patients of medical …

IMPLICATIONS: We investigated a modified subcutaneous approach using bilateral surgical
leads for occipital nerve electrical stimulation and found improvements in visual analog …