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 …

Essential Hypertension Breakthrough: Bilateral Sphenopalatine Ganglion Blocks Reduce Blood Pressure, 2018 update.

Sphenopalatine Ganglion Blocks (SPG Blocks, Pterygopalatine Ganglion Blocks) can give dramatic relief to headache, migraine, orofacial pain, TMJ disorders. cluster headache and anxiety patients.  A new article in Jan 2018 International Journal of Cardiology (abstract below) shows success with SPG Blocks in treating essential Hypertension. The minimally invasive block was effective utilized 2% lidocaine and was administered just once.  This …

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 …

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 …

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 …

SPG Blocks and Neuromuscular Corrections of the Trigeminal System is Key to Treating Headaches & Migraines

Amazing Stories of Pain Relief surround Sphenopalatine Ganglion Blocks. These amazing autonomic blocks have been used for over 100 years with success. I personally began using them after the book “Miracles on Park Avenue” was published and given to me by a patient who asked me to find someone who did this in Chicago. I learned the procedure from Dr …

SPG Blocks: Relief from a Decade of Severe Migraines

Patients frequently suffer from severe migraine for years and even decades and a old fashioned inexpensive treatment can give the life changing relief.  Often called the “Miracle Headache Cure” Sphenopalating blocks have been around for over 100 years.  The last 20 to 30 years have become an era of massive drug therapy and they have fallen by the wayside.  This …