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Surgery for Occipital Neuralgia

by James on 10 July 2009

Those with occipital neuralgia have jabbing pain in the areas of the greater or lesser occipital nerves, or the third occipital nerve.  The pain, then, is usually in the lower back of the head on one side, though it can spread to other areas.  Usually there’s also tenderness over the nerve. Often occipital neuralgia is [...]

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