He further stated, “Now it is very easily treatable. There is a gamma knife surgery. They fix screws on your face for 7-8 hours. They make you lie down and with the gamma knife…” he said as he ...

Expert Rev Neurother. 2007;7(11):1565-1579. Satisfactory outcomes depend on correct diagnosis, as effective pain relief is more likely to be achieved when classical features of TN are elicited, such ...

May 17, 2010 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) — Microvascular decompression (MVD) of the trigeminal nerve is a safe and effective procedure for persistent or recurrent trigeminal neuralgia (TN) after ...

BALTIMORE, Md. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – Imagine a pain in your face that is so intense you can’t talk, eat or move. It’s called trigeminal neuralgia, and up to 15,000 people a year are diagnosed with it.

Dr Ben Jonker loves treating people with trigeminal neuralgia – a condition that has been described as the “suicide disease”.

The incidence of trigeminal neuralgia escalates with age, typically manifesting in the age group of 53 to 57 years. There is a compelling correlation between cold weather and exacerbation of ...

Trigeminal neuralgia can be clinically diagnosed based on a complete medical history and neurosensory examination of the patient. The neurologic examination should demonstrate the classic reproducible ...

A sudden electric shock in the face that disappears in seconds may not sound alarming at first. But for many, it marks the beginning of a painful neurological condition that quietly takes over daily ...

Imagine a kiss on the cheek, a bite into a strawberry or a breeze on your forehead causing sudden, excruciating, electrical shock-like pain to one side of your face. That agonizing stab of pain may be ...

Mumbai: A 56-year-old social worker from Dadar endured over a decade of excruciating pain caused by Trigeminal Neuralgia, one of the most painful neurological disorders known. Due to a misdiagnosis, ...