Thanks for pointing this out to me. I must be getting cross eyed from researching all this stuff. It's the same study on Aetna showing 12 patients have both nerves cut. Did you have both nerves cut? He is suggesting three nerves to cut for me.
MMA retrospective chart review was conducted to identify 206 consecutive patients undergoing
neurolysis of the greater or, less commonly, excision of the greater and/or lesser occipital nerves.
Of 206 patients, 190 underwent greater occipital nerve neurolysis (171 bilateral). Twelve patients
underwent greater and lesser occipital nerve excision, whereas four underwent lesser occipital
nerve excision alone. The investigators found that 80.5% of patients experienced at least 50%
pain relief and 43.4% of patients experienced complete relief of headache. Minimum duration of
follow-up was 12 months. (Ducic et al., 2009)