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  2. Occipital Neuralgia: Symptoms, Causes and Treatments - WebMD

    www.webmd.com/migraines-headaches/occipital-neuralgia...

    Occipital neuralgia is a headache disorder that affects nerves that run through your scalp (the occipital nerves). It causes pain in the back of your head or behind the eyes.

  3. Occipital Neuralgia: Occipital Headache, Symptoms & Treatment

    my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/23072-occi

    Occipital neuralgia is a headache disorder that affects your occipital nerves. Your occipital nerves are the nerves that run through your scalp. You may experience sharp, stinging or burning sensations on your scalp or behind your eye. Most people experience pain relief with the right treatment.

  4. Occipital Neuralgia - Johns Hopkins Medicine

    www.hopkinsmedicine.org/.../occipital-neuralgia

    Occipital neuralgia may occur spontaneously, or as the result of a pinched nerve root in the neck (from arthritis, for example), or because of prior injury or surgery to the scalp or skull. Sometimes "tight" muscles at the back of the head can entrap the nerves. How is occipital neuralgia diagnosed? There is not one test to diagnose occipital ...

  5. Occipital Neuralgia: What It Is and How to Treat It

    www.spine-health.com/blog/occipital-neuralgia-what-it-and...

    Here's a quick, useful guide for understanding and treating occipital neuralgia, a condition that may be causing the pain you feel in your neck and behind your head.

  6. Occipital neuralgia: Symptoms and treatments - Harvard Health

    www.health.harvard.edu/pain/occipital-neuralgia-symptoms...

    Occipital neuralgia is a rare but painful condition that causes severe, piercing headaches. The pain is felt in the back of the head, behind the ears, or in the upper neck. For some people, just combing their hair or lying on a pillow can cause excruciating pain.

  7. Occipital neuralgia - Wikipedia

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    Occipital neuralgia (ON) is a painful condition affecting the posterior head in the distributions of the greater occipital nerve (GON), lesser occipital nerve (LON), third occipital nerve (TON), or a combination of the three.

  8. Occipital Neuralgia | National Institute of Neurological ...

    www.ninds.nih.gov/.../disorders/occipital-neuralgia

    Occipital neuralgia is a rare neurological condition that involves shooting, shocking, throbbing, burning, or aching pain and headache that generally starts at the base of the head and spreads along the scalp on one or both sides of the head.

  9. Occipital Neuralgia: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatments

    www.healthline.com/health/occipital-neuralgia

    Occipital neuralgia is a rare type of chronic headache disorder. It occurs when pain stems from the occipital region and spreads through the occipital nerves. The occipital nerves run...

  10. Occipital Neuralgia - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf

    www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK538281

    Occipital neuralgia (ON) is a painful condition affecting the posterior head in the distributions of the greater occipital nerve (GON), lesser occipital nerve (LON), third occipital nerve (TON), or a combination of the three.

  11. Occipital Neuralgia - AANS

    www.aans.org/.../conditions-treatments/occipital-neuralgia

    Occipital Neuralgia is a condition in which the occipital nerves, the nerves that run through the scalp, are injured or inflamed. This causes headaches that feel like severe piercing, throbbing or shock-like pain in the upper neck, back of the head or behind the ears.