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suboccipital neuralgia --> posttraumatic neck syndrome

(Science: syndrome) A clinical complex of pain, tenderness, tight neck musculature, vasomotor instability, and ill-defined symptoms such as dizziness and blurred vision as the result of trauma to the neck. Also variously termed occipital or suboccipital neuralgia or neuritis; cervical tension syndrome; cervical myospasm, myositis, or fibrositis.

Synonym: cervical fibrositis, cervical tension syndrome.