What Is the Occipital Nerve? The occipital nerve is actually a group of nerves that give you feeling in your scalp. They branch off from larger nerves in your spinal cord. There are three kinds of ...

When something compresses or pinches a nerve in the shoulder, a person may experience pain, numbness, or tingling. Pinched nerves typically heal without treatment. A ‘pinched nerve’ is a colloquial ...

Your greater occipital nerve is responsible for most of the feeling in the back and top of your head. Irritation or inflammation of this nerve can cause headaches. People with occipital nerve ...

Osteoarthritis patients report significant pain relief after treatment with cooled radiofrequency ablation, a new technique that "stuns" sensory nerves in shoulder and hip joints to reduce — and ...

If your shoulder is numb, the nerves in your shoulder joint are probably involved. Nerves send messages to and from the body and brain. This allows you to feel different sensations, including pain and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . After shoulder surgery, a single-injection of ultrasound-guided brachial plexus block with liposome bupivacaine ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Despite higher pain scores at 8 hours postoperatively and increased opioid use, local infiltration analgesia was ...

A peripheral nerve block is a procedure done by an anesthesiologist to provide postoperative pain relief for people having knee replacement surgery. The anesthesiologist (a doctor specializing in pain ...

The occipital nerve runs from the base of the skull along the back of the head. An occipital nerve block is a procedure to temporarily provide relief from pain related to this nerve, such as that due ...