Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is a debilitating, chronic syndrome that causes sudden, severe, electric shock-like pain in the face, according to a news release from University Hospitals. While TN ...

NORTHWOOD (WPVI) -- Pain is among the hardest medical problems to deal with. And facial pain is one of the trickiest. A Philadelphia man details his long journey to relief. "The pain initially was ...

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.

NORTH PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Imagine having a nerve so sensitive that eating or drinking - or even a light breeze - can set off excruciating pain. That's trigeminal neuralgia. It's a debilitating ...

Microvascular decompression is a surgery to treat trigeminal neuralgia. A neurosurgeon relieves pressure (typically from a blood vessel) around the trigeminal nerve (sensory nerve running along your ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- 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. When ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Trigeminal neuralgia is a severe facial pain disorder that is difficult to treat. It is the most common facial ...

Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is often described as one of the most excruciating pain disorders known to medicine. It’s sometimes referred to as the “suicide disease” because of the unbearable intensity ...

Basimglurant is a potent, cell-penetrant negative allosteric modulator of mGlu5 receptors that works by lowering the perception of pain threshold. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted ...

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

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 76-year-old male. A few months ago, I suddenly had the worst pain in my life, centered in the right side of my tongue, of all places. It felt like a live electrical wire was ...