In outpatient clinics, we often see middle-aged and elderly people (and also young people) who come to the clinic with repeated headaches that have not been treated, often having had a large number of MRI and CT films of the head. After a careful examination, it is actually a large occipital neuralgia. A simple adjustment of lifestyle habits and a few days of medication will solve the problem. In layman’s terms, occipital neuralgia can manifest as a headache from the back of the head to the front of the occipital region, swelling pain / throbbing pain, etc., which can affect the temples and even all the way to the pain around the eyes. It can be easily confused with migraine or lack of blood supply to the brain. Occipital neuralgia is most often caused by prolonged head bowing. Simple self-diagnosis method: 1. Most of them have high pillow or long time looking down at the computer/cell phone/playing cards during the day; 2. The characteristics of the headache are as mentioned above, lateral, from back to front; most of them can be relieved after a day of heavy activity in the morning, (of course, if you look down at the computer all day, it will be aggravated in the evening); 3. pressure pain, while there is no pressure pain on the side without headache. If the headache meets the above characteristics, then you can try simple self-treatment: 1. Change a small round pillow and sleep on the neck, with the back of the head slightly off the bed when lying on your back, so that a simple traction effect can be achieved; 2. Change the habit of lowering the head during the day, and raise the chest and head like a soldier. 3, if it is occipital neuralgia, so adjust a few days will be effective. Of course, serious headaches still need to see a doctor in time.