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- Mark Plazier, Sven Vanneste, Ingrid Dekelver, Mark Thimineur, and Dirk De Ridder.
- TRI and Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
- Prog Neurol Surg. 2011 Jan 1;24:133-46.
AbstractFibromyalgia is a condition marked by widespread chronic pain, accompanied by a variety of other symptoms, including sleep and fatigue disorders, headaches, disorders of the autonomic nervous system, as well as cognitive and psychiatric symptoms. It occurs predominantly in women and is often associated with other systemic or autoimmune diseases. Despite its serious socio economical burden, the treatment options remain poor. In this chapter, the authors discuss the possibilities of using greater occipital nerve stimulation as a treatment for fibromyalgia, based on available clinical studies. Greater occipital nerve stimulation has already been used successfully to treat occipital neuralgia and various primary headache syndromes. Testable hypothetical working mechanisms are proposed to explain the surprising effect of this treatment on widespread bodily pain.Copyright © 2011 S. Karger AG, Basel.
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