13/12/2021
🔶🔸OCCIPITAL NEURALGIA🔸🔶
Occipital Neuralgia or C2 Neuralgia is a form of headache in which there is throbbing electric-shock like pain in upper neck, back of head, and behind ears generally occurring on one side of head.
There Are Two Major Types of Occipital Neuralgia or C2 Neuralgia:
🔶 Greater Occipital Neuralgia: is a common type of posttraumatic headache, but is also seen in patients without injury. The pressure, aching, stabbing, or throbbing pain may be in a nuchal-occipital, temporal, parietal, frontal, periorbital, or retro-orbital distribution. The headache may last for minutes or hours to days and can be unilateral or bilateral.
🔶 Lesser Occipital Neuralgia: is similar to that of greater occipital neuralgia, but the pain generally refers more laterally over the head.
🔸 Symptoms:
- Burning, aching and throbbing pain that starts typically at the base of the head and radiates to the scalp
- Pain can be on one side or both sides of the head
- Sensitivity to light
- Pain behind the eye
- Scalp tenderness
- Pain when moving the neck.
🔸Treatment of Occipital Neuralgia
- Pain killers
- Applying heat to the neck
- Resting in a quiet room
- Massage of the tight and painful neck muscles
- Muscle relaxants
- Surgery.