The trigeminal nerve is a cranial nerve. It arises from the brainstem, and its branches cover your face and head. The trigeminal nerve is a paired nerve — you have one on each side. Its chief function ...

Discover if your "electric shock" jaw pain is trigeminal neuralgia, a neurological condition often mistaken for dental ...

There are 12 cranial nerves in the body, all originating in the brain. They come in pairs and connect different body areas and organs to the brain. Cranial nerves can transmit two types of information ...

Trigeminal neuralgia is a chronic pain disorder that affects the nerves in your face. It causes a painful electric shock sensation in the jaw or side of the face, and the symptoms can worsen over time ...

The trigeminal nerve plays a significant role in migraine attacks by transmitting pain signals from the face to the brain, and structural changes in the nerve may contribute to these attacks. Migraine ...

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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 ...

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, ...

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) 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 isn’t ...