Keywords
occipital neuralgia
suboccipital neuralgia
occipital nerve.
Abstract
Introduction: Occipital neuralgia is an entity with welldefined components, but occasionally underdiagnosed that tends to maintain insidious behavior and generate some resistance to medical treatment, maintaining a good response to interventional management with a minimum rate of associated complications and pain relief. Satisfactory and prolonged. Case description: We present 5 cases of patients with defined criteria for occipital neuralgia by (IHS) which were managed by suboccipital decompression, evaluated by the analog numerical scale and analogous verbal scale over a period of 90 days. The procedures were performed without complications or adverse events. The result was a satisfactory relief for the patient of chronic pain, with adequate specificity of the site of the condition; as well as improvement in the quality of life, mood, medication consumption and patient satisfaction. Conclusions: We consider that the use of decompression of the major occipital nerve via suboccipital route can be taken as an alternative in patients with occipital neuralgia, with a high probability of obtaining an analgesic benefit and a low probability of presenting some adverse effect or complication.References
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