Headache Treatment in Mater Oblia Hospital

Headache care at Mater Olbia Hospital in Olbia, Sardinia, Italy, brings together neurology, pain therapy, imaging, and rehabilitation. The Pain Therapy Unit offers radiofrequency treatment of the greater occipital nerve for tension-type headache.

Neurologist Dr. Edoardo Gentile has over 25 years of experience treating headache and pain syndromes. Since 2024, he has served as Piedmont regional representative for the Italian Association for the Study of Pain. Mater Olbia is accredited within the Regione Sardegna healthcare system and is a provider under Italy’s National Healthcare Service.

Headache assessment includes brain CT and MRI

Assessment can involve neurology, pain medicine, and physiatry. The clinic also has neurovascular imaging and on-site laboratory testing.

• Neurology consultation: Assessment and treatment of headache disorders through the Neurology and Stroke Unit.
• Pain Therapy Unit consultation: Diagnosis of acute or chronic pain.
• Physiatric assessment: Evaluation of headache disorders, including cephalalgic disorders.
• Neurovascular Doppler: Echo-color Doppler of the supra-aortic trunks and brain vessels.
• Brain imaging: CT and MRI are available through neuroradiology.
• Other tests: Pre-operative assessment by an anesthesiologist and 500+ laboratory analyses performed on site.

Treatment includes occipital nerve radiofrequency

The greater occipital nerve procedure uses radiofrequency neurolesion and is performed as an outpatient treatment. Other care may include medication, rehabilitation methods, or interventional pain procedures.

• Pharmacological pain therapy: Outpatient treatment for acute and chronic pain, including tension-type headache. A plan follows clinical and instrumental diagnosis.
• Interventional pain procedures: Options include spinal cord neurostimulator implantation, diagnostic-operative periduroscopy, and pulsed radiofrequency of the dorsal root ganglion.
• Other radiofrequency procedures: The Pain Therapy Unit also offers treatment of cervical, thoracic, and lumbar facet joints, plus sacroiliac joint denervation.
• Physiatric treatment: Care may include manual medicine, postural assessment, antalgic mesotherapy, and joint or paravertebral injections.
• Acupuncture: Offered through the Physiatry and Neurorehabilitation department for pain management.

The hospital is a joint venture of Qatar Foundation Endowment and Rome’s Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS. Patients can request a headache consultation through Bookimed.