What is the best method of delivering a SPG Block? There are many alternatives for delivering SPG Blocks, I personally feel that self-administration is the best approach for the majority of patients. I utilize a wide variety of methods in some circumstances. Is Lidocaine the drug of choice for Cluster Headaches? The answer is yes for many if not most patients …
New Daily Persistent Headache: AKA Chronic Headache with Acute Onset. Are SPG Blocks the Ideal First Line Treatment?
The New Daily Persistent Headache (NDPH) is daily from its onset and usually peaks in about three days. Most patients can pinpoint exactly when it began to a day or an hour. Many patients remember many specifics of the day as well. These NDP Headaches seem to respond exceedingly well to Sphenopalatine Ganglion Blocks. Unlike most headache patients, patients suffering …
Catheter Types for Delivery of Nasal Sphenopalatine Ganglion Blocks: What is the Best Delivery System?
Sphenopalatine Ganglion Blocks are indicated for a wide of conditions including chronic daily headaches, chronic migraines, cluster headaches, Tension-Type Headache, TMJ disorders, Trigeminal Neuralgia, Myofascial Pain, Trigeminal Neuralgia, chronic rhinitis and many other conditions. There are many ways to deliver Sphenopalatine Ganglion (SPG) blocks by injection and transnasal approaches. The original description of Sphenopalatine (pterygopalatine) ganglion blocks by Sluder in …
Sphenopalatine Ganglion Blocks: Are these Autonomic Blocks the Answer to Reduced Sexual Desire. Self-Administration of SPG Blocks is Key!
I routinely utilize Sphenopalatine Ganglion Blocks or SPG Blocks to treat patients with chronic pain issues. These include TMJ disorders, headaches, migraines, myofascial pain and dysfunction, anxiety, panic attacks and other problems associated with Autonomic Sympathetic Overload. While there are numerous methods of delivering SPG Blocks my preferred method is a cotton-tipped continual feed nasal catheter. The results are similar …
Doctors Discuss SPG Blocks: Their First Personal Experience with Sphenopalatine Ganglion Blocks.
I recently taught a course in Sphenopalatine Ganglion Blocks in Seattle Washington to Neuromuscular Dentists. After the 90 minute lecture close to 100 doctors and their teams lined up to have SPG Blocks. This first Video is a dentist who has been in pain most of her life. She does not remember even a single day where she was out …
Sphenopalatine Ganglion Block: a Safe and Easy Method for the Management of Orofacial pain. Lidocaine SPG Blocks
I have been teaching self administration of SPG Blocks for over 30 years as an effective, patient friendly method of controlling orofacial pain, migraines, cluster headaches, tension headaches, sinus headaches, anxiety and many other common problems. I just came across this article from over 20 years ago endorsing this great technique. The Sphenopalatine Ganglion is also known as the Nasal …
Managing Chronic Headaches with SPG Block (Sphenopalatine Ganglion Block). Life Changing Lidocaine Blocks May Eliminate Your Pain.
Contrary to many current algorithms for deciding which treatment to utilize for Migraine, Autonomic Cephalgias and Chronic Headache Sphenopalatine Ganglion Blocks should be considered a first line approach to treatment due to their high efficacy and the minimal negative side effects. A new article in Current Pain Management (abstract below) discusses Sphenopalatine Ganglion Blocks in treating Migraine, Facial Pain and …
SPG Block relieves Severe Anxiety, Neck Pain and Headaches
The Sphenopalatine Ganglion Block is best known for it’s amazing effects on treating chronic pain anywhere in the body but especially its use for headaches, migraines, orofacial pain and cluster headaches. The positive side effects of SPG Blocks include reduction of anxiety and depression. SPG Blocks are also used to treat PTSD and to assist in withdrawal symptoms from medications. …
Sphenopalatine Ganglion Blocks for treating Headaches, Migraines, TMJ Disorders, Anxiety and Depression
Sphenopalatine Ganglion (SPG) Blocks will be the topic I teach at the 19th International Meeting of the International College of CranioMandibular Orthopedics (ICCMO) meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina The meeting is being hosted by Carlos Capmourteres, DDS, MICCMO, President-Elect, International Section of ICCMO and President, South America Section of ICCMO. Ths SPG course will focus on the Anatomy of the …
Precision Personalized Medical Treatment for Headaches and Migraines
Precision Personalized Medical Treatment for Headaches and Migraines Neuromuscular Approach is Pinnacle of Personalized Precision Medicine. Measurement is essential for precision treatment! “If it is measured it is a fact otherwise it is an opinion” Barney Jankelson founder of precision neuromuscular dentistry. In general treatment for headaches and migraines is far from personalized or precision but rather consists of trial …
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