Condition · Occipital Neuralgia
Stabbing pain at the base of your skull has a structural cause.
Occipital neuralgia is treated as a nerve disease — but the nerve is usually being compressed or irritated by the structure around it. Address that structure and the nerve calms.
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Same condition. Different angle.
If any of this sounds like you
- Sharp, electric, stabbing pain at the base of the skull
- Pain that radiates up the back of the head, sometimes behind the eye
- Tenderness when pressure is applied at the base of the skull
- Triggered by neck movement, hair brushing, or pillow pressure
- Nerve blocks help temporarily — then it returns
Most of those symptoms come from one place. Standard care usually doesn't look there because the diagnostic tools used can't see it.
Why it keeps coming back
The greater and lesser occipital nerves travel through the suboccipital region — the soft tissue between your skull and your top two vertebrae. When that tissue is hypertonic, scarred, or compressed by upper cervical instability, the nerves get squeezed every time you move your head.
Nerve blocks calm the nerve for a few days or weeks. They don't fix the structural reason it's being compressed. That's why the pain comes back.
Addressing the suboccipital fascia and upper cervical stability removes the compression at its source.
The structural fix — three pillars, the right order
Pillar 1
Alignment
Gentle instrument adjustments restore precise vertebral position without aggressive force — never manual thrust on an unstable structure.
Pillar 2
Curvature
Custom-fit spinal weights + individualized corrective exercises rebuild the engineered curves that protect nerves, vessels, and joints.
Pillar 3
Stability
Structural Needling™ resets nervous-system "static" and rebuilds the connective tissue. Without this, nothing else holds.
For occipital neuralgia, Stability · The Support usually carries the most weight.
See if your case is one we can solve.
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