Which occipital nerves are named in the transcript?

Ben GreenfieldFounder, Ben Greenfield Life

Unraveling the Mystery of Headaches

21 Aug 2023 · 0 min

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This YouTube video (Ben Greenfield, Aug 21, 2023) discusses causes of headaches with a clinician-oriented focus. The speakers propose that many headaches—especially migraine-type pain—are due to nerve impingements. They describe an anatomical relationship where the occipital artery lies next to three occipital nerves (greater, lesser, and third/least occipital), and note that a focused physical exam is needed to identify which nerve is involved.

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The greater occipital, the lesser occipital, and the least/third occipital.

Actually to get rid of his headache.
It ended up being from the circulation.
To the brain and abnormality in the. In the brain circulation.
But that.
Aside from that story, just to go over the basics of headaches now, headaches, it turns out, are.
Really nerve impingements. And the migraine.
Headache has.
The nerve impinged. And also next to an artery, usually the occipital artery sits right next to three nerves. We have really three.
Nerves that.
Do the same thing. So without looking and pushing and doing a good exam by talking to somebody, I don't know which of those three nerves it is. And it's pretty simple. It's the greater occipital, the lesser occipital, and the least or third occipital. And all those nerves are going to.
Wrap around to.
The forehead and to behind the eye.