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More Than Just Headaches: Living with and Treating Occipital Neuralgia
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Occipital Neuralgia — a condition in which the occipital nerves, the nerves that run through the back of the scalp, are injured, inflamed, or entrapped. 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.
This invisible assailant striking unpredictably with throbbing pain on the back of the head can come with relentless brief episodes or can last for days and often severely affect one’s quality of life, transforming ordinary days into bouts of unbearable pain. Fortunately, there’s hope.
Thanks to medical advancements, we now have access to various treatments, some of which tap into the frontiers of medical science —like Peripheral Nerve Hydrodissection – offering real potential for pain relief and improved quality of life.
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