• Pain Pract · Dec 2006

    Clinical Trial

    Repetitive occipital nerve blockade for cervicogenic headache: expanded case report of 47 adults.

    • Zoher M Naja, Mariam El-Rajab, Mohamad A Al-Tannir, Fouad M Ziade, and Omar M Tawfik.
    • Anesthesia Department, Makassed General Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon. zouhnaja@yahoo.com
    • Pain Pract. 2006 Dec 1; 6 (4): 278-84.

    PurposeTo evaluate the repetitive occipital nerve blocks using a nerve stimulator in the treatment of cervicogenic headache.MethodsThis prospective noncomparative clinical interventional case-series study included 47 patients suffering from cervicogenic headache using a repetitive guided occipital nerve blockade.ResultsForty-one patients (87%) required more than one injection to achieve six-month pain-relief period. For every three years of headache history, the outcomes demonstrated that a patient needed one additional injection to the basic injection.ConclusionThe repeated nerve stimulator-guided occipital nerve blockade is a treatment mode that may relieve cervicogenic headache with no recurrence for at least six months in addition to alleviation of associated symptoms.

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