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Comparative study of greater occipital nerve block and conventional therapy in chronic migraine
Kaushal Kabir1, Ritu Pauranik1, Kirti Agrawal1
1Department of Anaesthesia, Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College, Indore, India.
Abstract:
Chronic migraine is disabling and medicines alone are often not enough so ultrasound guided greater occipital nerve block is used as an add-on therapy. We observed 100 patients where one group received prophylaxis with the block and the other received only prophylaxis with follow up of 90 days. The block group showed a bigger fall in migraine disability score (14.2 to 6.8 vs 14.3 to 9.2 p < 0.0001), lower VAS score (7.9 to 4.4 vs 7.1 to 6.0 p < 0.0001) and fewer headache episodes early and higher satisfaction (12.7 vs 12.3 p = 0.016). Ultrasound guided block was safe and simple and gave better pain relief with reduced medicine use and improved patient satisfaction.
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