Treatment
Once diagnosed, occipital neuralgia can be treated in several ways. These include local nerve block, peripheral nerve stimulation, steroids, rhizotomy, phenol injections, antidepressants, and Occipital Cryoneurolysis.
Other less common forms of surgical neurolysis or microdecompression are also used to treat the condition when conservative measures fail.
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