ORLANDO, Fla. — Suprascapular nerve block has been shown efficacious in both outpatient shoulder arthroscopy and inpatient shoulder surgery. In addition, the technique avoids some of the problems ...

Your greater occipital nerve is responsible for most of the feeling in the back and top of your head. Irritation or inflammation of this nerve can cause headaches. People with occipital nerve ...

Pain can be a catch-22 for people considering surgery, especially orthopedic procedures. They need surgery to relieve their pain, but they delay having it because of stories they have heard about post ...

The occipital nerve runs from the base of the skull along the back of the head. An occipital nerve block is a procedure to temporarily provide relief from pain related to this nerve, such as that due ...

Osteoarthritis patients report significant pain relief after treatment with cooled radiofrequency ablation, a new technique that "stuns" sensory nerves in shoulder and hip joints to reduce — and ...

What Is the Occipital Nerve? The occipital nerve is actually a group of nerves that give you feeling in your scalp. They branch off from larger nerves in your spinal cord. There are three kinds of ...