Occipital Nerve Decompression Surgery: What to Expect . Before Your Surgery • One week before your surgery, please stop taking the following medications: o NSAIDs such as Ibuprofen, Motrin, Aleve, Naproxen, etc. as these can increase your risk of bleeding during and after surgery o Aspirin and any Aspirin containing medications

2019年12月9日 · Also known as nerve decompression surgery or migraine surgery, it strategically reduces pressure on the nerves to relieve migraine symptoms of pain. In turn, it could reduce other symptoms, such as nausea, light sensitivity, fatigue, loss of appetite, abdominal pain, and dizziness in certain patients.

2022年1月11日 · At Vanderbilt Plastic Surgery, Salam Kassis, M.D., answers common questions about nerve decompression surgery for migraines, occipital nerve decompression (it’s the same surgery for treatment of occipital neuralgia and occipital migraines), or peripheral nerve/trigger site surgery. It’s proven helpful for treating some — not all — types ...

2024年5月15日 · Nerve decompression surgery, also known as nerve release surgery, uses a plastic surgery technique to address nerve-related migraine trigger points. Research into the surgery began...

2022年1月31日 · Nerve decompression surgery is a surgical procedure that addresses body structures like muscle, bone, fascia (tough tissue beneath the skin) and blood vessels that can compress, irritate or entrap peripheral nerves. It gives the nerves more room and relieves pain for the patient. Plastic surgeons have been using nerve decompression surgery to ...

2020年10月14日 · Occipital MH treatment has long been focused on GON compression by the semispinal capitis muscle 26 and the obliquus capitis 29 during forceful, flexion-extension movements of the neck or in cases of trauma.

2020年3月15日 · This chapter discusses all the steps that are required to perform successful nerve decompression surgery at the occipital trigger site. Evaluation and diagnosis of patients with occipital migraines/headaches/neuralgia is explained in detail with videos of neuromodulator/nerve block injection sites.

2017年11月9日 · The next most common target of nerve decompression is the greater occipital nerve at the back of the scalp. Six different compression points have been described for this nerve, including the trapezius, semispinalis capitis, and the occipital artery.

Introduction: Nerve decompression surgery for occipital neuralgia (ON) of the lesser occipital nerve (LON) is oftentimes performed in combination with treatment of the greater and third occipital nerves (GON and TON). The traditional surgical approach requires multiple separate incisions. This study describes combined GON/LON approach through a single vertical midline incision and reports on ...

2023年11月28日 · All patients who underwent treatment for refractory ON by a headache specialist and plastic surgeon benefited from nerve decompression surgery in various degrees. The collaborative selection criteria employed in this study may be replicable in clinical practice.