Home Treatment for Occipital Neuralgia | 5 excellent movements to relieve pain

Get rid of pain in the neck and head due to Occipital Neuralgia with these easy exercises. Daily performance of these movements and posture correction will help keep the pain away.

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:03 Posture Correction
1:37 Cervical Retraction
3:21 Suboccipital Release
5:17 Suboccipital Release with Manual Traction
8:26 Pectoral Stretch
10:55 Platysma Stretch

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[manosskar]

First excercise is so painful! I can pinpoint exactly where the discomfort is! Holly smoke! After massaging the area for several minutes i manage to do it with less discomfort to the point where it only feels as if my muscles are extremely tight! Thank you so much!! I finally found something to do with this that actually feels as if something is working!!!

[fieryarrow]

Thank you so much. The flare has lasted for over 8 hours, and it was so painful to the point of crying. Having tried your exercises the pain has dropped 98%
Thank you so so much!

[nataliabrand]

Thank you so much. I’ve been in so much pain and found relief with these exercises

[star.cat.]

Thanks for this! As soon as I did the first exercise (the chin tuck), I could feel where the pain was coming from! These exercises make me feel the appropriate stretches at the right points! Thank you! Such a weird pain - not the head…clearly where you have highlighted top of the neck. Very educational, thank you!

[reniervanrooyen]

Brought so much relief first time trying❤❤❤

[cnieman]

WOW. Thank you. This helped me get relief immediately!

[DebbieEgress]

Started with Occipital neuralgia in mid December and it has been debilitating. Followed your video and have had relief. Hoping it will continue. Thank you!

[kimjoshuabartolome]

Thank you! got the relief I've been looking for

[jackiecoleman]

This was very helpful. I felt relief immediately!

[mayraestrada-perez]

Hello 👋 I’m 34 and I had a chiropractor that created a herniated disc. Which required spine surgery. now my neck hurts a lot.Due to the change in my spine. It’s now going left. Well These exercises have done worked for me so Thank you and god bless.

[SoundGGirl]

Thank you for this. These exercises do work. The chin tuck is extremely helpful. Although I don’t have this as a permanent condition, due to a poor sleeping posture, I can wake up with this aggravated nerve. It is honestly the worst pain I have ever felt. The pain is so bad, my body goes into a strange panic mode, causing intense nausea and projectile vomiting. You feel like you want to die to end the pain and nausea.

[saragry]

Thank you so so much, I'm endlessly grateful for these exercises, they help me enormously. Everything about this video is perfect. Clear, simple, easy to follow, no disturbances, and most importantly it really relieves my recurring intense occipital pain.

[koalachaos]

I found these exercises to be very helpful. Many thanks.

[anonymouse]

I have been suffering from tinnitus in one ear for over 2 years now. It was only recently that I discovered the possibility of occipital neuralgia.


Your exercise has decreased the volume by over 90%.

This morning I woke up to silence for the first time in years.

I cannot thank you enough

[helenekempe]

Great instruction - thank you so much Beth. 💖💖💖💖🤗🤗

[cherishmoments]

Thanks for this video. From past three days I having throbbing pain in back of the head

[vinayawalimbe]

Thank you so much for the video 🙏 This has helped me found relief with these exercises... Thank you so much !! 🙏

[leafXIV]

I was drenched in sweat after a workout indoors, then I went out for five minutes to grab something. It was windy and cold outside, In the back of my mind, I knew it was dangerous, and it was. Because that night I felt I got down with something. The next morning, I woke up with a slight fever. I was still able to function normally. I didn’t even look sick to the people around me, I also didn’t tell them. At night, it got serious, I felt and looked sick. Fever, shivering, aches, bad enough to keep me in bed most of the day. The following night is when I got hit by the stabbing pain behind my left ear. I had never had that in my life and I’m 41 years old.

It was a throbbing stabbing pain every two minutes or so. The first night it was not that bad, kept me up a lot of the night, but also could still get some sleep in between the attacks. (The stabbing would stop for an hour or so before resuming).

The following night, that’s when it became horrible. What I thought was already painful the night before increased twofold and this time, there was no respite. I couldn’t sleep. I was actually screaming every time I got hit. So I had to wake up my wife this time. That’s the night I started researching on YouTube.

I found MotivationalDoc’s videos first, they were helpful maybe, but I didn’t feel any significant relief from doing the exercices. This is the video that really worked for me. The chin tuck and the stretch really gave me instant relief which lasted almost an hour. For me, that was a huge progress. I was literally screaming every 30 seconds at some point.

During that hour, I researched more and learned about Occipital Neuralgia. There was no single trigger or cause for me. When I think back, I did have some very minor injuries from on my left side. Then I strained my left forearm muscles during a workout, which I thought was not too bad, but I could clearly feel some nerve pain in the center of my hand, running up my arm. Basically, the muscles you use to make a fist, to grip. I overworked them. And it turns out the nerves there link back through the arm, shoulder all the way to the occipital area. Plus, in general, I do have bad posture that presses on those neck muscles.

After that hour, the pain came back fresher than ever. It started hitting me as frequently as before, and this time, these exercises had no effect whatsoever. I found another video advising a full body massage. My Wife massaged the whole left side of my body. That helped. It calmed down to the point I could get some sleep.

In the morning it was good. I even thought I was healed. Then It came back around noon, and started stabbing me to the point of screaming the whole day and night (it gave me a few breaks because I could take a few short naps).

At this point, nothing in the videos worked anymore. What did help was heating pads right under my neck and not moving too much.

Remember, THIS WAS ALL HAPPENING IN THE MIDDLE OF ME HAVING THE FLU AND FEVER! Just sitting up for more than a couple of minutes was hard. I had to muster all my energy just to go to the bathroom. I was too weak to do any meaningful exercises. My only hope was to believe, this nightmare came with the flu, and it will go away with the flu.

I was right. As I was progressively recovering from the flu, the occipital neuralgia also got less and less painful, albeit just as frequent. The last day, it was still stabbing me every minute, just was not painful enough to get me to scream. My temperature went down, I felt almost recovered, I could got out on walks now and it was still there, but very mild pain.

I forgot to mention that the last couple of days while it was still bad, it even spread to the right side too! There was a time I was getting hit from both sides at once! I think the whole thing lasted five or six days. It was horrible. I read accounts of people living with this for weeks, months or even years. I prayed to God. I asked him to spare me and my pain went away with the flu.

The underlying cause is still there : Tight muscles under the base of the skull. Right now the left side tiny muscle is tight as piece of rubber. My wife even thought it was a bone, but I asked her how come there’s no such bone on the right side?

My fear is that next time I get down with the flu, this horrible thing would come back with it. So, in the meantime, I’m working on my posture and still doing these exercises. Even though right now, I don’t feel any pain at all.

[tomgutman]

Your exercises have been very helpful. What do you recommend is the best sleeping position and type of pillow to mitigate the pain? For me, this is when I have the worst pains.

[aliceclearmanphd]

WOW. Thank you. Neck pain blossoming into headache is just what I need to enhance my experience of breast cancer treatment.🤕

Thank you MUCH!!! Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!! 💗💗