herpes zoster can occur anywhere on the body. The most common sites are thoracic, and in the cutaneous distribution of the ophthalmic branch of the trigeminal nerve. VZV reactivation from the ...

Imagine a pain in your face that is so intense you can’t talk, eat or move. It’s called trigeminal neuralgia, and up to 15,000 people a year are diagnosed with it. When medications don’t ...

Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is reputed to be one of the most painful conditions in human experience. Thus, many treatments, both medical and surgical, have been developed for this relapsing and ...

When it reactivates, it causes shingles. Reactivation typically affects a single nerve (dermatome) and the itching and pain (and rash, in a typical case) are confined to the path of that nerve.

Though less common, shingles may develop as a rash that crosses multiple dermatomes. Dermatomes are separate skin areas that are supplied by separate spinal nerves. When the rash affects three or ...

He is experienced with multiple techniques including stereotactic radiosurgery for treating trigeminal neuralgia (a disorder that results in intolerable pain on one side of the face). Dr. Everton ...

That said, there are some people who get shingles more than once. Here’s how it happens: the varicella-zoster virus, the same virus that causes chickenpox, lies dormant in nerve cells after you ...

Tiger Woods had another surgery on his lower back — his sixth in the past 10 years — on Friday morning. This one he hopes will relieve some of the spasms he experienced this year. In a brief ...

It is caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox, which remains dormant and inactive in the nerve cells and can reactivate later, causing shingles, which is characterized by severe pain and a ...

The trigeminal ganglion is also called the Gasserian ganglion, semilunar ganglion, or Gasser's ganglion. It is part of the trigeminal nerve, which gathers sensory stimuli from the head and face and ...

Aug. 14, 2024 — Being born in autumn or winter is associated with asthma and allergic rhinitis in Finland, a new registry-based study ... Sep. 10, 2024 — Women who are being treated for asthma ...