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Occipital neuralgia is also called as Arnold’s Neuralgia, where there is chronic pain in the upper and back of the neck and behind the ears.

Causes of occipital neuralgia

Causes of occipital neuralgia are tension headache, migraine, and glared vision, damage to the occipital nerves by pressure or compression or contraction due to injury to the neck.

Symptoms of occipital neuralgia

Most characteristic symptoms are the aching, sharp, shooting, zapping and throbbing pains. They are frequent in nature. Other symptoms include chronic attacks of headache, pain in the back, one sided headache, blurred vision,and difficulty in speech, pain in the eyebrows and behind the eyes.

Treatment for occipital neuralgia

The symptoms will reduce through heat, rest and physical therapy. Surgical intervention is followed when conservative methods fail.