Neurosurgical Treatment of Persistent Occipital Myalgia-Neuralgia Syndrome

At the First World Congress on Pain, in Florence (Italy) in 1975, the results of neurosurgical treatment of 114 patients suffering intractable occipital neuralgia and/or myalgia syndrome were presented [2–9]. Since then, a total of 450 patients with the same syndrome have been treated and their progress followed over a period of 2–10 years.