Trigeminal neuralgia is a chronic pain condition that affects about 12 out of 100,000 people in the United States each year. You may be experiencing sudden, severe face pain that comes and goes ...

Ten patients had varying degrees of sensory disturbance confined to the fifth cranial nerve. The second and third divisions were most commonly affected, but motor paresis and pain were notably absent, ...

Motor cortex stimulation is a new technique that is showing promise in the treatment, not of classic TN, but of intractable trigeminal neuropathic pain, which is a syndrome of severe, constant, ...

Travis Barker is opening up about what sounds like a rough week in terms of his health. On Friday, the Blink-182 drummer, 47, took to X to share with fans that he suffered three health issues last ...

It's known as the "suicide disease" because of the intense electric shock-like burning or stabbing nerve pain that runs along the side of the face, and it can be triggered by talking, eating or even a ...

External trigeminal nerve stimulation (eTNS) may be an effective and well-tolerated rescue therapy for acute vestibular migraine (VM) attacks, a small retrospective study suggests. For 19 patients in ...

Trigeminal Neuralgia (TN), colloquially known as "tic douloureux" or the "Suicide Disease," is a debilitating chronic pain condition that afflicts the trigeminal nerve, causing recurrent, intense ...