The Open Emergency Medicine Journal

2010, 3 : 32-35
Published online 2010 October 12. DOI: 10.2174/1876542401003010032
Publisher ID: TOEMJ-3-32

Headache Management with Occipital Nerve Blocks, Cervical Injections and Trigger Point Injections

Larry Mellick and Neha Verma
Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, 1120 15th Street Georgia, 30912, USA

ABSTRACT

In this article three different intramuscular injection procedures used to treat headache pain are reviewed. These procedures, occipital nerve blocks, cervical injections and trigger point injections, are described and the supporting literature is reviewed.

Keywords:

Headache, cephalgia, cervical injections, trigger point, occipital nerve block, injections.