The head neuralgia is mostly considered as neuralgia. The most common cause is greater occipital neuralgia. The common causes of greater occipital neuralgia include neuritis, upper respiratory tract infection, influenza, etc. Viral bacteria invade the greater occipital nerve, causing spontaneous pain of the greater occipital nerve. Other diseases that can cause greater occipital neuralgia include rheumatism, diabetes, thyroid disease, alcohol lead poisoning Occipital and cervical trauma, cervical spondylosis, rheumatoid spondylitis or metastatic cancer, skull base depression, occipital foramen stenosis, carpometacarpal fusion, carpometacarpal dislocation, upper cervical vertebral body separation insufficiency, cerebellar tonsillar hernia, intraspinal tumors, tumors in the occipital foramen region, adhesive spinal arachnoiditis, syringomyelia, and injury of suboccipital joint ligaments, etc.
