Talk:Occipital neuralgia

question

Hi to all! My question is simply this....Is it possible that an attack of BOTH the occippital nerve and trigeminal nerves can happen at the same time? Terbear45 (talk) 21:16, 30 January 2012 (UTC)terbear45

Proposed merge

I have proposed a merge with 'occipital neuritis. This is because:

• They appear to be about the same condition.
• Occipital neuralgia appears to be the preferred term in literature.

Kind regards, LT90001 (talk) 07:21, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

Sorry I can't offer any firm opinion, I would need to research these because I don't know much about them... ICD-10 is not helpful here. Sounds like occipital neuralgia does not follow trauma and occipital neuritis generally does. I would also point out that the IASP has different definitions for these terms neuralgia and neuritis [1]

• Neuralgia-- Pain in the distribution of a nerve or nerves. Note: Common usage, especially in Europe, often implies a paroxysmal quality, but neuralgia should not be reserved for paroxysmal pains.
• Neuritis-- Inflammation of a nerve or nerves.

Whilst the accepted international definitions are distinguishable, we all know sources do not necessarily use terms as they should, and they could well be synonyms.

The IHS' classification of chronic pain lists occipital neuralgia as a clinical entity and does not mention trauma in the notes. [2] I could not find specific use of the term occipital neuritis, but several entries under "headaches attributed to head and/or neck trauma" seem to come close. Maybe if it were to be merged anywhere, whiplash might be most appropriate? Lesion (talk) 02:12, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. As there is some ambiguity relating to this term in the literature, I have preserved the page as a disambiguation page pointing to either this page or whiplash injury. LT90001 (talk) 03:23, 12 October 2013 (UTC)