Trigeminal Neuralgia Treatment Pain Relief
Train Your Brain To Change The Pain
What is Trigeminal Neuralgia Facial Pain?
Trigeminal neuralgia is a chronic pain condition that causes sudden, severe, electric shock–like facial pain, related to the trigeminal nerve.
It is sometimes referred to as the “suicide disease” because the pain can be so intense and debilitating that it can cause severe emotional distress.
Even though the pain is considered “the world’s most painful known medical condition“, reporting and research are very limited. The UK’s National Institute for health and Care Excellence (NICE) suggests around 1 in 12,500 people are affected each year, and 1 in 1000 people experience it sometime in their life, particularly people over 50, and more often females than males.
The pain is caused by the brain interpreting signals from the person’s face in a certain way. It’s the brain that change the electrical signals from the body into that debilitating “ouch” sensation.
Help For Trigeminal Neuralgia Treatment and Support
We provide advanced psychosomatic (physical conditions that are exacerbated by specific brain signals) therapies to help retrain your brain and reduce the feeling of pain.
Our approach is bi-directional, helping change messages from the brain to the body and from the body to the brain.
Brain to Body: Your brain might be sending messages to your body that trigger physical changes in your face, which in turn create pain signals. This often happens if you experienced a distressing or difficult event before the pain started. Your brain is sending a message that it is having problems.
Body to Brain: Your body will be sending messages to your brain. Your brain is then turning those messages into the feeling of pain. We can help to change that interpretation, so that those signals provide a different message.
Using psychosomatic therapies to change the feeling of pain has been used by surgeons operating without anaesthetics for more than two hundred years. It was first documented by the Scottish surgeon James Braid in 1842, using an approach he later called monoideism. If it can remove the feeling of pain during surgery, it can probably help you to reduce feelings of pain too. Some people think of it as being similar to stage hypnotism, where a person may eat an onion with the belief that it is an apple.
The brain and the treatment are that powerful.
Our approach is designed to work quickly. Some people notice a difference after the first session, and we expect changes to happen within six sessions. Although, everyone is different and it will help some people more than others.
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Trigeminal Neuralgia Therapy Sessions
What happens during our Trigeminal Neuralgia therapy sessions?
First, we’ll have a relaxed conversation about your condition, about how it feels for you, when the pain happens, and when it first started.
Then, if there was a preceding trauma, stressor or difficult life event, we may use some simple techniques to help reduce the emotional component of that event.
Next, we introduce some techniques to help retrain the deeper part of your brain, to help change the messages from your brain to your body, and to change your brain’s interpretation of signals from your body.
We will also provide you with powerful psychological tools to help reduce pain at any time, similar to what is used for people who can reduce pain during surgery.
You will be fully conscious at all times and aware of what we’re doing. We don’t use or offer medication or surgery.
Many people are surprised at how quick and easy it can be, to learn to control pain.
Trigeminal Neuralgia Treatment Research
While medical research and medical treatment options are very limited, we have found some relevant papers that were published about psychosomatic treatments for trigeminal neuralgia.
Gurian (1985) reported of two cases where hypnotherapy helped patients with trigeminal neuralgia. Washington Da Silva et al. (2025) performed a systematic review of existing literature and found 6 studies with 232 patients, concluding that “all studies showed statistical significant for the effect of the intervention (hypnotherapy)”, and is a “promising strategy for the treatment of orofacial pain”. Ozdemir et al. (2025) reported that hypnotherapy provided a 30% to 45% reduction in pain intensity for patients with multiple sclerosis, of which around 2% to 6% have trigeminal neuralgia as well.
Given that trigeminal neuralgia must severely impact around 63,000 people in the UK, we are amazed that the medical community isn’t doing more research into the condition and potential treatments.
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