Trigeminal Neuralgia Association
Support and information for patients, families, and physicians dealing with trigeminal neuralgia and other facial neuralgias

Trigeminal Neuralgia: eMedicine Neurosurgery
The clinical description of severe facial pain, which is now known as trigeminal neuralgia (TN), can be traced back more than 300 years. Aretaeus of Cappadocia, known for one of the earliest descriptions of migraine, is credited ...

Raeder Paratrigeminal Syndrome: eMedicine Neurology
Overview: First described by Raeder in 1918, Raeder paratrigeminal syndrome (ie, paratrigeminal neuralgia) is characterized by severe unilateral facial pain and headache in the distribution of the ophthalmic division of the trigeminal nerve in combination with ipsilateral ...

Trigeminal Neuralgia: eMedicine Neurology
Overview: Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is a common and potentially disabling pain syndrome, the precise pathophysiology of which remains obscure. Although neurologic examination findings are normal in patients with the idiopathic variety, the clinical history is distinctive. The ...

Trigeminal Neuralgia: eMedicine Emergency Medicine
Overview: Trigeminal neuralgia (TN), also known as tic douloureux, is a pain syndrome recognizable by the patient's history alone. The condition is characterized by pain often accompanied by a brief facial spasm or tic. Pain distribution is ...

Columbus - Wesley E. Shankland, II, DDS, MS, PHD
Do you or someone you know suffer with TMJ, headaches, facial pain, fibromyalgia, trigeminal neuralgia, or whiplash?

Facial Neuralgia Resources
Facial Neuralgia Resources is a patient-to-patient resource for people with face pain caused by cranial nerves disorders including trigeminal neurlgia, atypical facial pain, glossopharyngeal neuralgia, anesthesia dolorosa and other facial neuralgias.

West Palm Beach - The Gamma Knife Center
gamma knife radiosurgery is a stereotaxic non-invasive technique to treat brain lesions. It is a no-incision, outpatient procedure for treating brain tumors, AVMs, and trigeminal neuralgia

San Diego - San Diego Gamma Knife Center for treatment of Brain Tumors, Acoustic
The San Diego Gamma Knife Center was opened as a Center of Excellence in October 1994. The Center treats patients with brain tumors, AVMs, acoustic neuroma, Essential Tremors, trigeminal neuralgia and other brain disorders in the Southern California area, from all over the United States, and internationally.

Persistent Idiopathic Facial Pain: eMedicine Neurology
Overview: The term atypical facial pain was first introduced by Frazier and Russell in 1924. It has since been renamed persistent idiopathic facial pain (PIFP). PIFP refers to pain along the territory of the trigeminal nerve that ...

Carbamazepine: eMedicine Emergency Medicine
Carbamazepine (5H-dibenzazepine-5-carboxamide) is an iminostilbene derivative with a tricyclic structure. It is an antiepileptic drug widely used for treatment of simple partial seizures and complex partial seizures, trigeminal neuralgia, and bipolar affective disorder. Carbamazepine selectively inhibits ...

Toxicity, Carbamazepine: eMedicine Pediatrics: Cardiac Disease and Critical Care
Overview: Carbamazepine (Tegretol) has been used for treatment of trigeminal neuralgias since 1960. Since carbamazepine received approval for use as an antiepileptic agent in the United States in 1974, it became widely used for the management of ...

Morristown - Kenneth Zahl, M.D.
Medical practice in pain management for the evaluation, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of chronic and acute pain.

Neurosurgical Consultants: Downloads & Information Library
Lumbar Disc Herniation & Degenerative Conditions Part 2

Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus
Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) causes 2 distinct syndromes. The primary infection (chickenpox) is a contagious and usually benign febrile illness. Following this infection, virus particles remain in the dorsal root or other sensory ganglion where they may ...

Fort Wayne - Bhupendra K. Shah, MD, PC
Bhupendra K. Shah MD PC is the neurology practice Dr. Bhuhendra K. Shah, expert neurologist with offices in Fort Wayne, Columbia City and Angola, Indiana

American Equilibration Society
The American Equilibration Society stimulates studies of stresses that affect the temporomandibular region, and promotes better understanding of the etiology, diagnosis, and treatment of occlusal and temporomandibular joint disease.

Fresno - Fresno Headache Medical Clinic
The Fresno Headache Medical Clinic is one of the leading centers in the San Joaquin Valley in treating complex and difficult headache problems. The center is dedicated to helping patients with difficult to treat headaches get back to their normal activities. Physicians at the center utilize both traditional treatments and the latest innovative medical technology in treating headaches.

Sioux City - The Headache and Pain Control Center
headache and pain control center, The Headache and Pain Control Center is a neurosurgery clinic that exclusively treats chronic pain, particularly headaches. We believe that we have treatment options to offer when others fail because of a different philosophy about the origin of pain, and the approach used in it's treatment. Essentially, our belief is that most severe headaches originate in the cervical spine and therefore may be called cervicogenic headaches. New research in anatomy reveals that solely nerves from the sympathetic chain innervate discs and major ligaments of the spinal column and not only perceive pain but also affect, and sense blood vessel expansion and contraction . These nerves, subject to chemical and mechanical irritation, also proliferate into degenerated and diseased spinal discs

Facial Pain and Headache: eMedicine Otolaryngology and Facial Plastic Surgery
Overview: Headache and facial pain are common complaints in the emergency and outpatient setting. The lifetime prevalence of headache is greater than 90%.1 Most patients who present with headache have 1 of the following 3 main headache ...

Nerve Block, Infraorbital: eMedicine Clinical Procedures
Overview: The infraorbital nerve block is often used to accomplish regional anesthesia of the face. The procedure offers several advantages over local tissue infiltration. A nerve block often achieves anesthesia with a smaller amount of medication than ...

Independence - Midwest Neuroscience, PC
The Neurologic Headache Center is based at Midwest Neuroscience, PC, Comprehensive Neurologic and Neuroimaging Services. The Center is based in Independence, MI, near Kansas City, Missouri. Our neurologists are Charles D. Donohoe, MD, and Roxane S. Bremen, DO.

Nerve Block, Supraorbital: eMedicine Clinical Procedures
Overview: The supraorbital nerve block is often used to accomplish regional anesthesia of the face because it offers several advantages over local tissue infiltration. A nerve block often achieves anesthesia with a smaller amount of medication than is ...

Sturge-Weber Syndrome: eMedicine Radiology
Overview: Sturge-Weber syndrome (SWS) is a congenital disorder caused by the persistence of the transitory primordial sinusoidal plexus stage of vessel development. SWS is usually sporadic and characterized by a vascular malformation, with capillary and/or venous malformation ...

Multiple Sclerosis: eMedicine Neurology
Overview: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory, demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS). MS lesions, characterized by perivascular infiltration of monocytes and lymphocytes, appear as indurated areas in pathologic specimens; hence, the term sclerosis in ...

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