Thursday, December 9, 2010

Treatment of Migraine With Occipital Nerve Blocks Using Only Corticosteroids


  1. Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain

  2. 10 NOV 2010
  1. Joshua Tobin MD, 
  2. Stephen Flitman MD
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2010.01801.x
The indications for using steroids when performing occipital nerve blocks (ONBs) are not completely clear. We report a patient with chronic migraines who was allergic to local anesthetics, for whom ONBs using only corticosteroid proved useful. To our knowledge, this is only published case describing the effects of ONBs using only corticosteroid, without local anesthetic.

0 comments:

Post a Comment