Since the most common risk of occipital nerve stimulation is lead displacement, few measures can be taken to prevent it. These include anchoring the leads carefully to the fascia at retromastoid incision, the use of midline approach when implanting and using silicon glue to fix the leads. The biological complications can be prevented by ensuring the patient does not have any comorbitidies such as diabetes or hypertension. MRSA bacteria can increase the risk of complications so swabbing the candidates to rule out MRSA colonization and then providing antibiotic treatment to eliminate MRSA colonization before implantation is one way to avoid intraoperative or postoperative infections. Some other preventive measures in order to avoid complications include maintaining good sterile aseptic techniques during the surgery and trimming of hair in the occipital region.