Month: February 2017
Breakthrough: 3D Printing Cranial Nerves
The emerging technology of 3D printing stands to greatly enhance a facial pain patient’s medical journey by improving accurate imaging of cranial nerves. Currently, a patient seeking surgical intervention for cranial nerve pain relies upon his neurosurgeon’s expertise in radiologically identifying nerve compressions. This is the foundation upon which he will base his decision as to whether orContinue reading Breakthrough: 3D Printing Cranial Nerves →
#ICYMI: Researchers are Developing a New Drug for Facial Pain
In case you missed it: Currently accepted medical approaches to the management of chronic facial pain can be burdensome at best, and wholly ineffective, at worst. A new study coming out of Switzerland claims to have found a better medicine for the management of chronic facial pain. The substance, known as BIIB074, is a sodium channel blocker. What’s novel aboutContinue reading #ICYMI: Researchers are Developing a New Drug for Facial Pain →
#FaceFactsFriday: Facial Pain in History
Shoja MM, Tubbs RS, Khalili M, Khodadoost K, Loukas M, Cohen-Gadol AA. Esmail Jorjani (1042-1137) and his descriptions of trigeminal neuralgia, hemifacial spasm, and bell’s palsy. Neurosurgery. 2010 Aug;67(2):431-4. doi: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000372088.18260.B1.
Celebrating Love Today
The Facial Pain Advocacy Alliance wishes you a very Happy Valentine’s Day. We want to give a sincere and heartfelt “thank you” to all of the family and support people who continue to love us and care for us through our journeys with chronic facial pain.
When chronic facial pain isn’t TN
There are many different chronic facial pain diagnoses besides trigeminal neuralgia, and they do not all respond to the same treatments. Accurate diagnosis of chronic facial pain is critical to effective pain management. So, if your facial pain isn’t TN, what is it? It could be a trigeminal autonomic cephalgia (TAC) known as cluster headache. The pain ofContinue reading When chronic facial pain isn’t TN →
