The pain may also be a sign of a condition like occipital neuralgia, which is nerve-related pain. Medications, lifestyle changes, and, in some cases, surgeries can treat this type of pain.

Occipital lymph nodes are those found on the back of your head. If the swollen nodes are located on the neck below the ear, healthcare professionals may call them posterior cervical lymph nodes.

Don't pay attention to Misty's eyes, but instead look above at the Structure Core from Occipital. Credit: Occipital Back in 2013, Occipital made waves with a 3D mapping sensor for the iPad.

Dec. 22, 2023 — There does not appear to be any profound differences between so-called exposure-based CBT and traditional CBT in the treatment of fibromyalgia. Both forms of treatment produced a ...

The pain community’s new category — joining nociceptive and neuropathic pain — came after researchers in rheumatology led the way with decades of research showing that fibromyalgia (FM ...

Disturbed sleep is a prominent feature of fibromyalgia symptomatology and has been proposed as one of the core symptoms that should be systematically assessed in clinical trials for the treatment ...

Trigeminal neuralgia is an uncommon facial pain syndrome affecting a nerve in the head called the trigeminal nerve. It causes repeated episodes of sudden, extreme, electric-shock–like pain on the side ...

An occipital stroke happens in the back of the brain. This lobe, or part of the brain, helps people to recognize what they see. That means strokes in the occipital lobe can cause vision changes, which ...

“There is as exquisite an anguish suffered as from any distemper to which the body is subject, if we may judge by the expressions of it…” W Heberden, 1802 1 John Fothergill gave the first full and ...