SYNOPSIS Criteria for the diagnosis of cervicogenic headache are proposed, which include unilateral head pain, symptoms and signs of neck involvement, non‐clustering episodic moderate pain originating in the neck then spreading to the head, and response to root or nerve blockade; plus rarer and non‐obligatory features such as autonomic disturbances, dizziness, phonophotophobia, monocular visual blurring, and difficulty swallowing.