Trigeminal Neuralgia Treatment (Tic Douloureux)

Trigeminal Neuralgia Treatment

Trigeminal Neuralgia Treatment – The Trigeminal Nerve is located in the face and allows you to feel sensations in the facial region by carrying information back to your brain to process. Trigeminal Neuralgia or Tic Douloureux is characterized by chronic pain that can be aggravated by the mildest sensation to the face. Even just washing your face, stoking the face, eating, talking, smiling, drinking, eating, shaving, putting on make-up or brushing your teeth can trigger excruciating pain along the Trigeminal Nerve.
Trigeminal Neuralgia can start off with occasional mild twinges of pain on one side of the face in the area of the gums, lips, cheek, jaw, teeth eye or forehead. Pain can get progressively worse with more severe pain that occurs more often. Severe pain can feel like an electric shock that can last from a few seconds or longer and become more frequent over time. Episodes of multiple attacks can last days, weeks, months or even longer. It affects women more than men and usually those older than the age of 50.
Diagnosis can be made with a History, Neurological Exam and MRI. MRI is usually done to help to rule out a possible tumor which may be causing the pain. Other causes include Multiple Sclerosis, brain lesions or Trigeminal Neuralgia can be from an unknown cause.
Trigeminal Neuralgia Treatment in our office consists of Class IV High Power Laser Therapy. It is important to start off at a low setting and gradually increase the wattage due to sensitivity. If the patient can tolerate it, a Cryotherapy machine is used to blow cold air to cool the laser therapy beam which will reduce the thermal effects of the laser.

Trigeminal Neuralgia Treatment

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