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 ...

Study design: Report of seven patients with fibrous adhesive entrapment of lumbosacral nerve roots as a cause of sciatica, whose radiographic findings were negative and who experienced relief from ...

The frontal block is used to attain regional anesthesia of the face. It’s usually chosen over local tissue infiltration since it has many advantages. A group of nerves dubbed as ganglion or plexus ...

A peripheral nerve block is a procedure done by an anesthesiologist to provide postoperative pain relief for people having knee replacement surgery. The anesthesiologist (a doctor specializing in pain ...

Nerve blocks are now recommended to treat migraine pain in the ER The block halts pain signals from traveling along the occipital nerves at the base of the skull The new guidelines recommend against ...

Pain can be caused in any part of the body. When there is some dysfunction or problem in any organ or functioning, then pain occurs. Some pains are very general and can go away with time but some can ...

TWO Queenslanders became paraplegic and a third was left with incomplete tetraplegia almost immediately after each had one injection of steroids. Jane Watson became a paraplegic following a injection ...