Brief overview Treatment: medication or surgery with radiation if necessary, possibly supplemented by psychological care Symptoms: Flash-like, very brief and extremely severe attacks of pain in the face, often with even a light touch, talking, chewing, etc. (episodic form) or persistent pain (constant form) Causes and risk factors: Often an artery pressing on the nerve … Trigeminal Neuralgia: Therapy, Symptoms
Symptoms Flashing, stabbing, sharp, short-lasting pain in the cheek, lips, chin, and lower jaw Muscle spasms (“tic douloureux”). Hypersensitivity to touch Weight loss: chewing causes pain, patients stop eating Usually unilateral, very rarely bilateral. Trigger: Touching, washing, shaving, smoking, talking, brushing teeth, eating and the like. Trigger zones: Small areas in the nasolabial fold on … Trigeminal Neuralgia: Causes and Treatment
Anatomical background Humans have 4 sinuses, the maxillary sinuses, the frontal sinuses, the ethmoid sinuses, and the sphenoid sinuses. They are connected to the nasal cavity by 1-3 mm narrow bony openings called ostia and are lined with a thin respiratory epithelium with goblet cells and seromucous glands. The ciliated hairs provide clearance of mucus … Acute Sinusitis
Introduction Neuralgia is the technical term for nerve pain and refers to a pain that occurs in the supply area of a nerve. It is caused by an injury to the nerve itself and not by damage to the surrounding tissue. Nerve damage can be caused by mechanical influences such as pressure, inflammation, metabolic disorders, … Neuralgia
Neuralgia of the head or scalp A neuralgia of the head or scalp is often accompanied by an enormous amount of suffering. The slightest movement or touch of the head causes severe pain. Combing the hair, moving the face or even putting on a piece of clothing becomes pure torture. The cause is irritated or … Neuralgia of the head or scalp | Neuralgia
Meralgia parästhetica This cumbersome technical term describes the complaints caused by compression of the nerve responsible for transmitting pain and touch information from the lateral thigh. The nerve passes under the inguinal ligament on its way from the skin of the thigh to the spinal cord, where there is an increased risk of nerve entrapment. … Meralgia parästhetica | Neuralgia
Neuralgia at back Various diseases can lead to nerve-related pain in the back.Initially, these include degenerative (wear-related) changes in the spine or herniated discs. Both can result in the spinal cord or the nerve roots becoming virtually trapped and thus damaged. In addition to the neuralgic pain, neurological functional limitations (e.g. numbness, disturbances in movement … Neuralgia at back | Neuralgia
Postzosterneuralgia In shingles (herpes zoster), herpes viruses are reactivated, usually as a result of a weakening of the immune system, e.g. as part of a flu-like infection, and then attack a spinal cord nerve. Although the typical skin rash on the trunk usually disappears within 2-3 weeks with adequate treatment, the characteristic pain in some … Postzosterneuralgia | Neuralgia
Therapy Before a therapeutic measure can be selected, a comprehensive diagnostic procedure should be performed to rule out other diseases and to identify the affected nerve. The treatment of neuralgia does not result in freedom from pain for all patients. The German Pain Society has developed certain therapeutic goals to guide the treatment. Thus, the … Therapy | Neuralgia
Diagnosis Until the diagnosis of neuralgia is made, the patient often first goes through a variety of diagnostic procedures. First of all, all other causes that could be responsible for pain in the area in question are excluded. For this purpose, both neurological and physical examinations as well as imaging procedures such as X-rays, CT … Diagnosis | Neuralgia
A relaxing breakfast on Sunday morning. While chewing the delicious roll, a stabbing pain shoots in one side of the face in a flash. This is over after a few seconds, but so intense that the tears come. The name says it all: trigeminal, the triplet nerve, is the name for the fifth cranial nerve, … Trigeminal Neuralgia: Severe Pain in the Face
Although the symptoms are so typical, there are still patients who are treated for dental or sinus problems. If trigeminal neuralgia is suspected, an MRI of the brain is done, especially in younger people (who are more likely to have a secondary form), to rule out underlying diseases and treat them if necessary. What is … Trigeminal Neuralgia: Diagnosis and Treatment
