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Corrugator muscle surgery and the Migraine Trust

by James on 18 June 2011

This month the Migraine Trust issued a press release regarding "corrugator muscle surgery".  Wendy Thomas, the CEO for the Migraine Trust, went on record to say that they would not recommend this type of surgery for migraine.  The main reason was "insufficient evidence" that this type of surgery is effective. Some researchers have suspected that [...]

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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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