In order to further improve trigeminal neuralgia difficult patients with hemifacial spasm, the ability of traditional Chinese and Western medicine syndrome differentiation and surgical treatment level, on the afternoon of July 15th, the Brain Diagnosis and Treatment Center of Qingdao Haici Medical Group Neurosurgery held the "Both Internal and External Training, Chinese and Western Medicine" "Combined" seminar on the diagnosis and treatment of trigeminal neuralgia and facial spasm with both Chinese and Western medicine. Tang Ming, Vice President of the Group, attended the seminar, and senior experts from multiple disciplines such as the Acupuncture Rehabilitation Center, Neurology Department, Neurosurgery Department, and Treatment and Prevention Department shared their experiences.
Vice President Tang Ming said in his speech that trigeminal neuralgia is a common clinical disease. The group pays equal attention to traditional Chinese and Western medicine and has a variety of treatment methods such as acupuncture, traditional Chinese medicine, rehabilitation therapy, and surgery. Today, by building an academic platform, we can conduct more in-depth discussions on the classification, classification and characteristics of diseases, promote resource sharing among various disciplines, develop new ideas for diagnosis and treatment, provide patients with more accurate and efficient diagnosis and treatment services, and promote the construction of discipline connotation. , to help the group achieve high quality.
At the seminar, Liu Lian, honorary director of the group's acupuncture rehabilitation center, Su Li, director of the acupuncture rehabilitation center, Guo Ruiyou, director of the first and second wards of neurology, Li Bin, director of the third area of neurology, Kong Jun, director of neurosurgery, and acupuncture rehabilitation Sun Wei, deputy director of the center, Qu Xianshuang, deputy director of the treatment and prevention department, Zhang Hongtao, attending physician of the Department of Neurosurgery, Yan Wei and other experts shared their experiences and discussed topics such as improving the diagnosis and treatment technology of trigeminal neuralgia and paying equal attention to the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia and hemifacial spasm with both traditional Chinese and Western medicine. Exchange and discussion.
Director Kong Jun introduced that trigeminal neuralgia is a common clinical cranial nerve disease that mostly occurs in adults and the elderly, with the peak age between 48 and 59 years old. The pain site is strictly limited to the sensory control area of trigeminal nerve , often starting from the maxillary branch (2nd branch) or mandibular branch (3rd branch) on one side, and can affect other branches as the disease progresses. The pain is often localized to one side, and a very few patients may develop trigeminal neuralgia on both sides successively or simultaneously. Although all 3 branches can be affected, involvement of the 2nd and 3rd branches is the most common, accounting for about 95%. Trigeminal neuralgia is characterized by severe pain like tearing, electric shock, lightning, acupuncture, knife cutting or burning, with sudden and sudden stops, and normal intervals. The pain starts from the maxillofacial area or alveolar area and radiates along the nerve supply area. Each pain lasts from a few seconds to tens of seconds, and can also last for several minutes. The number of attacks gradually becomes more frequent as the course of the disease increases, the intermission period shortens, and the pain intensifies.
The treatment of trigeminal neuralgia requires individualized and standardized treatment. Patients with relatively mild symptoms in the early stage can follow the doctor's advice to take drugs for the treatment of epilepsy to suppress the generation of abnormal currents and achieve the purpose of treatment; for patients with worsening pain or severe drug reactions, drug allergies , as the disease progresses, the drug efficiency weakens , patients who need to increase the dose of medication should consider surgical treatment. The surgical options can include microvascular decompression , radiofrequency ablation , balloon compression, etc.
The seminar focused on the topic of equal emphasis on traditional Chinese and Western medicine treatment and multidisciplinary cooperation for patients with trigeminal neuralgia and hemifacial spasm. It set up a learning and exchange platform to discuss the latest progress of traditional Chinese medicine and surgical treatment of trigeminal neuralgia, promote each other and make progress together. , which plays a positive role in promoting the improvement of the treatment level of traditional Chinese and Western medicine for trigeminal neuralgia.
