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 ...

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 ...

Nerve blocks are used for pain treatment and management. Often a group of nerves, called a plexus or ganglion, that causes pain to a specific organ or body region can be blocked with the injection of ...

In a room near the operating suites at Yale New Haven Hospital's Saint Raphael Campus, anesthesiologist Jinlei Li, MD, prepares a patient for a total knee replacement. She inserts a hair-thin needle ...

The frontal block is used to attain regional anesthesia of the face. It’s usually chosen over local tissue infiltration since it has many advantages. A group of nerves dubbed as ganglion or plexus ...

Pain can be caused in any part of the body. When there is some dysfunction or problem in any organ or functioning, then pain occurs. Some pains are very general and can go away with time but some can ...

Regional anesthesia techniques, such as nerve blocks, are routinely used in humans and can contribute to multimodal approaches to pain management in research animals. Ultrasound guidance is an ...