Patients with cluster headache experience an extremely painful ... targeting the greater occipital nerve for this purpose, based partially on the success of smaller trials as well as the ...

Although occipital nerve stimulation usually requires weeks or months to become effective, headache attacks usually return shortly after the stimulator has been switched off, becomes displaced or ...

Peripheral stimulation of the occipital nerve has been successfully used in open-label trials to manage other forms of medically refractory headache. Burns et al. investigated the use of bilateral ...

Medically reviewed by John Carew, MD Pain behind the ear could be related to the ear itself or nearby structures that share a nerve supply with the ear. There are several possible causes of pain ...