Which occipital nerves are named in the transcript?

Jeffrey Jaime, CISSPServant Leader & CEO Driving AI Innovation and Team Excellence

Unraveling the Mystery of Headaches

21 Aug 2023 · 0 min

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This YouTube video ("Unraveling the Mystery of Headaches" by Jeffrey Jaime) explains causes and types of headaches with emphasis on nerve-impingement mechanisms. The speaker contrasts migraine-related vascular issues with nerve impingements, noting that occipital-region headaches often involve three nerves (greater occipital, lesser occipital, and third/least occipital) that lie adjacent to the occipital artery; a hands-on exam is needed to identify the specific nerve involved.

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Greater occipital nerve; lesser occipital nerve; least (third) occipital nerve.

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.