They branch off from larger nerves in your spinal cord. There are three kinds of occipital nerves: Greater occipital nerves. These are the largest of the occipital nerves, which give you feeling ...

“No current guidelines include [greater occipital nerve] block in the management of migraine headache although many studies have researched this, with variable results and conclusions,” Sorcha ...

Your greater occipital nerve is responsible for most of the feeling in the back and top of your head. Irritation or inflammation of this nerve can cause headaches. People with occipital nerve ...

Research has shown that treatment to the occipital nerve alone or a combined treatment to both areas may be more effective than a supraorbital nerve block alone. There is a greater body of ...

It results from irritation or injury to the occipital nerves. There are three occipital nerves — the greater, the lesser, and the third — present in the second and third vertebrae of the neck.

“Greater occipital nerve stimulation affects supratentorial brain areas involved in pain. This information might be of importance to explore the possibilities and to explain the working ...

Lidocaine injections into the greater occipital nerve relieve severe, refractory migraine attacks in children, results of a randomized controlled trial show. Investigators found children receiving ...

Image: Adobe Stock Szperka and colleagues conducted a randomized control trial to examine the efficacy of greater occipital nerve blocks with lidocaine compared with treatment with saline in ...

The back of the device has two channels that activate the greater occipital nerve. To assess the safety and efficacy of the device in treating acute migraine, investigators conducted a multicenter ...

The occipital nerve has three branches. They include: the greater occipital nerve (GON) the lesser occipital nerve (LON) the third occipital nerve (TON) During an occipital nerve block ...