Nerve & Joint Pain
Nerve & Joint Pain
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About Trigeminal Neuralgia (TM)
TN affects about 4-13 people per 100,000 annually, with lifetime prevalence around 0.16%-0.3%; women are 1.5-3 times more likely than men, and incidence rises sharply after age 50, reaching 23-45 per 100,000 in those over 80. Trigeminal neuralgia (TN), often called “tic douloureux,” is a chronic pain disorder affecting the trigeminal nerve, which carries sensation from the face to the brain. It causes sudden, severe facial pain attacks resembling electric shocks or stabbing sensations, typically lasting seconds to minutes but recurring frequently.
Symptoms
Pain strikes one side of the face (often V2 or V3 branches of the trigeminal nerve), triggered by light touch, chewing, talking, or wind; episodes cluster in bouts lasting weeks to months, sometimes with aching between attacks.
Known Causes
- Primary: Cranialcervical instability and vascular compression of the trigeminal nerve root near the brainstem irritating the nerve leading to aberrant nerve firing.
- Secondary: Linked to underlying issues like multiple sclerosis (1-6% of MS patients), tumors, cysts, arteriovenous malformations, surgical damage, or stroke.
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