Severe Neuropathic eye / Ocular Pain and the Role of the Autonomic Nervous System and Sphenopalatine Ganglion Blocks in Diagnosis and Therapeutic Treatments. The diagnosis of neuropathic ocular pain is typically a diagnosis of exclusion. This means that there is no clear diagnostic signs and symptoms. Altered response and perception of pain to non-painful stimuli is called Allodynia and ocular …
CHICAGO PEDIATRIC MIGRAINE: Sphenopalatine Ganglion Nerve Block for the Treatment of Pediatric Migraine Headaches
Reprinted from “I Hate Headaches website” http://wwwihateheadaches.org Authored by: Ira L Shapira DDS, D,ABDSM, D,AACFP, D,ABIPM A new 2021 three-year retrospective study of the use of Sphenopalatine Ganglion Blocks (SPG Blocks) showed that this minimally invasive procedure had excellent results in a pediatric migraine population. (abstract below) The Sphenopalatine Ganglion (SPG) also supplies innervation to the Pineal Gland and may …
Trigeminal Neuralgia: Sphenopalatine Ganglion Block Treatment
I recently saw a physician who came in to learn how to do nasal catheter treatment blocks of the Sphenopalatine Ganglion. He had a history of decompression surgery followed by 18 months of very severe pain and never achieved complete relief. I brought him in and administered an SPG Block with lidocaine and it relieved his trigeminal Neuralgia Symptoms. I …
SUFFER NO MORE: DEALING WITH THE GREAT IMPOSTOR
By Ira Shapira, DDS Mary has been in pain for over 28 years. She has dealt with headaches, facial pain, and neck pain for as long as she can remember and has seen every neurologist and pain specialist, massage therapist and chiropractor she has heard about from friends. She lost track of all the medications she has tried. Joseph …