How to choose treatment for trigeminal neuralgia? Gamma knife

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Trigeminal neuralgia is a multiple disease, which always brings pain to patients. In daily life, there will be different degrees of stimulation, such as eating, coughing, washing face, talking, and even head activity may cause pain. Therefore, the patient is extremely afraid and is very careful about his own actions. These are symptoms of trigeminal neuralgia. So how to choose treatment is a topic most concerned by patients' friends. Now I will share how to treat well.

How to choose treatment for trigeminal neuralgia? Gamma knife

First: trigeminal neuralgia patients general treatment of the preferred method, the role is to inhibit the impulse of nerve excitatory conduction to relieve pain, curative effect, adverse side effects, long-term use will not cure, withdrawal may relapse.

Second: gamma knife treatment is suitable for a wide range of people, no operation, no anesthesia, no hospitalization, gamma ray irradiation of the source of pain, blocking the pain conduction pathway, 20 minutes of processing time, does not affect the normal life, is not easy to relapse, re treatment.

Third: microvascular decompression surgery is only suitable for trigeminal neuralgia patients with vascular compression, craniotomy separation of blood vessels and trigeminal nerve, need hospitalization surgery, generally 7-15 days, long rest time, recurrence of patients, can not repeat treatment.

matters needing attention

Radiofrequency thermocoagulation treatment effect is also good, high temperature heating coagulation denatured nerve, with X-ray and CT positioning, nerve root positioning error, with the treatment of patients, strong pain, high recurrence rate, most patients can develop complications.