Michael Appeadu, Natalia Miranda-Cantellops, Brittany Mays, Marisa Carino Mason, John Reynolds, Thilani Samarakoon, Chane Price, Teshamae Monteith
BACKGROUND: Cervicogenic headache (CGH) can often be difficult to treat, given the overlapping clinical features of other headaches and the varying sources of pain that patients report. While imaging is not useful in diagnosing CGH, anesthetic blockade of the atlanto-occipital joint, lateral atlantoaxial joint, or specific cervical zygapophyseal joints can be used to confirm the diagnosis. When conservative treatment measures, such as physical therapy, fail, interventional techniques, such as intraarticular steroid injections, have been shown in observational studies to provide relief in some patients...
September 2022: Pain Physician