Management of Cluster Headaches with Sphenopalatine Ganglion Blocks. What is the Best Mode of Administration of SPG Blocks for Cluster Headaches.

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 …

Bilateral sphenopalatine ganglion block reduces blood pressure in patients with essential hypertension

I have been utilizing bilateral SPG Blocks to treat TMJ pain, MPD, Anxiety, Chronic Pain, Tension Headaches, Migraine Headaches, Dluster Headaches and Fibromyalgia.  SPG Blocks can be used to reverse central sensitization and can serve as a replacement for a host of medications utilized for headaches, anxiety, depression, neuralgias not only saving reources but also reducing harmful side effects. This …

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 …

Infiltration of the sphenopalatine ganglion decreases blood pressure in newly diagnosed and never treated patients with essential hypertension

Can the “Miracles on Park Avenue” SPG Block cure Essential Hypertension? Sphenopalatine Ganglion blocks have over a One Hundred Year history of being safe and effective for a wide variety of chronic pain issues. They were the block used by Dr Milton Reder in his work made famous by the book “Miracles on Park Avenue” A new article in the …

CLUSTER HEADACHES: Why your doctor should know multiple delivery methods for SPG Blocks

SPHENOPALATINE GANGLION BLOCKS ARE EXTREMELY EFFECTIVE FOR TREATING ACUTE CLUSTER HEADACHES. This article (abstract below) describes a patient with Jacob’s Disease. A Second Article from June 2017 “Sphenopalatine Ganglion Block in the Management of Chronic Headaches” (abstract below) also discusses effectiveness of the SPG Block. In the first paper The doctor wanted to do a SPG Block thru the Coronoid …

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 …

The Secret Way To Block Migraine and Anxiety

The secret to controlling, stopping or eliminating most migraines, headaches and anxiety is not new but an old, almost forgottoen technique. The Sphenopalatine Ganglion Block is more effective overall than almost any of the pharmaceuticals that are currently used and far safer. It was originally discovered by Sluder in 1908 who Scluders’s neuralgia was named for. Today it is believed …

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 …