Physical therapy techniques are successfully applied to other neurologically-based disorders. Have such mind-body techniques been tried with TN with any success?
I know absolutely nothing about the fields of PT or OT, but perhaps this can be a place where we can learn if they can help us cope with TN. We know the trigeminal nerve is firing because the myelin sheath is eroded. But is there anything that can be done by our bodies on the dendritic ends to retrain the neuron? Something like muscular retraining, but in this case, might it be receptor retraining? See, to begin with, I don’t understand the Trigeminal nerve, nor the neurological functioning involved. It’s been too many years since college! But, I’ll do some research and get back to this afterwards.
Taking some action feels better than sitting around doing nothing. Right now I’m in a pain-free zone and can concentrate. I’ll try to make good use of the time.
hello crabtree, this i find very interesting and will myself do some homework. on occasion i find that i can have some control over the pain. it may just be coincidental with the pain ending of its own accord but i will have to keep practicing over a longer period to see. when the pain is a long attack of10 minutes or more i kneel with my head on a chair and make an effort to un clench my body. i find that tightening in time with the pulsing pain increases the pain as I'm sending those physical reactions to my face and creating continued spasms,like a vicious circle .so i experimented with trying to relax my body (it sounds ridiculous considering whats going on) and felt the pain and watched the pulsing. this is hard to describe but i sort of went into the tiny gap between the pain and imagined pushing or nudging it away i seemed to be using an energy in the roof of my mouth to move it. the thought of relaxing into a pain is so counterintuitive that it creates a fear of giving up or giving in and opening up to more pain.its a bit like jumping of a cliff being told their is a net but its invisible. thanks pete