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List of Doctors for Occipital Nerve Stimulation

Written by Banner307

28 February 2013

This is a list of doctors involved with headache treatment using occipital and/or peripheral nerve stimulators. The list is not comprehensive; there are many more doctors out there. I would encourage you to contact a stimulator manufacturer (i.e. Medtronic, St. Jude, Boston Scientific) to locate a doctor near you.

If you have another doctor to add to the list, please email me at onstim@gmail.com.

List of Dr. Links that do decompression surgery

Written by mamalu

24 April 2012

Thanks to Headache hope fb:}}}

This is some of the links available for Drs

Simple Explanation of Neuromuscular Therapy

Written by cmiller

03 October 2010

People keep mentioning Neuromuscular Therapy so here is a simple definition. I posted this from wikipedia which is not necessary factual in many articles, however, most websites on this therapy said the same thing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromuscular_therapy

57-Year-Old Plainfield Man Relieved Of Constant Migraine Pain Following New Cutting Edge Nerve Proce

Written by huskyboys

26 January 2010

The surgery was performed on Mr. Edgar Freire, a constant migraine sufferer, who was not obtaining pain relief from medication. As part of the procedure, Dr. Kaufman released muscle tissue around Mr. Freire's supraorbital nerve (upper eyelid area) to relieve the tension causing his severe migraine pain. The surgery, called "nerve decompression," is a minimally invasive, outpatient procedure and took approximately one hour

Occipital Neuralgia: Dr. Jho's C-2 Microdecompression, A Novel Treatment for Occipital Neuralgia

Written by huskyboys

26 January 2010

Instead of the conventional treatment of nerve-cutting, the C-2 nerve root along with the ganglion and postgangionic nerve are decompressed (released from compression by blood vessels) via a 2-cm skin incision. Unlike the conventional surgery of nerve sectioning, Dr. Jho's operation is physiological because he does not sacrifice the nerve.

ndications and Outcomes for Surgical Treatment of Patients with Chronic Migraine Headaches Caused by

Written by huskyboys

26 January 2010

Neurolysis of the greater occipital nerve appears to provide safe, durable pain relief in the majority of selected patients with chronic headaches caused by occipital neuralgia.

Revolutionary Migraine Treatment Only at Georgetown

Written by huskyboys

26 January 2010

But now a revolutionary new treatment is offering some headache sufferers dramatic improvement, while actually curing others