{"id":3065,"date":"2021-12-08T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T13:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusfoundation.org\/?post_type=sw_disease_condition&#038;p=3065"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:39:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T05:39:32","slug":"trigeminal-neuralgia","status":"publish","type":"sw_disease_condition","link":"https:\/\/www.fusfoundation.org\/diseases-and-conditions\/trigeminal-neuralgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Trigeminal Neuralgia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-focused-ultrasound-therapy\">Focused Ultrasound Therapy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Focused ultrasound is a noninvasive, therapeutic technology with the potential to improve the quality of life and decrease the cost of care for patients with trigeminal neuralgia. This novel technology focuses beams of ultrasound energy precisely and accurately on targets deep in the brain without damaging surrounding normal tissue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How it Works<\/strong><br>Where the beams converge, focused ultrasound produces precise ablation (thermal destruction of tissue), which enables trigeminal neuralgia to be treated without surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Advantages<\/strong><br>The primary options for treatment of trigeminal neuropathy include medication or invasive surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For certain patients, focused ultrasound could provide a noninvasive alternative to surgery with less risk of complications \u2013 such as surgical wound healing or infection \u2013 at a lower cost. It can reach the desired target without damaging surrounding tissue and is repeatable, if necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-clinical-trials\">Clinical Trials<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Foundation updates these pages regularly, but with the increasing number of clinical trials, we want to be sure that our audience has the latest information available. Therefore, we also added the website search information for the above trials. If you click <a href=\"https:\/\/clinicaltrials.gov\/search?cond=Trigeminal%20Neuralgia&amp;term=focused%20ultrasound&amp;aggFilters=status:not%20rec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>, it will take you to the latest information available from<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clinicaltrials.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.clinicaltrials.gov\/<\/a><\/strong>.<br><br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fusfoundation.org\/the-technology\/treatment-sites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See a list of treatment sites<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fusfoundation.org\/the-technology\/research-sites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See a list of laboratory research sites<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-find-a-treatment-site\">Find a Treatment Site<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fusfoundation.org\/the-technology\/treatment-sites\/?indication=Trigeminal%20Neuralgia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Search for a treatment center or clinical trial near you.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-regulatory-approval-and-reimbursement-nbsp\">Regulatory Approval and Reimbursement&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Trigeminal neuralgia treatment in the US has not been approved by regulatory bodies or covered by medical insurance companies. In Europe, trigeminal neuralgia has been treated under the neuropathic pain CE Mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-notable-papers\">Notable Papers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Stern JI, Ali R, Chiang CC, Robertson CE. <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/39665844\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Pathophysiology and Management of Refractory Trigeminal Neuralgia<\/strong><\/a>. Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep. 2024 Dec 12;25(1):10. doi: 10.1007\/s11910-024-01387-2. PMID: 39665844&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gallay M, Moser D, Jeanmonod D.&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fneur.2020.00271\/full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MR-Guided Focused Ultrasound Central Lateral Thalamotomy for Trigeminal Neuralgia<\/a><\/strong>. Single Center Experience Frontiers in Neurology, V11 2020. DOI=10.3389\/fneur.2020.00271<br><br>Ma Y, Hsu G, Zhang F.&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/32240878\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The applicability and efficacy of magnetic resonance-guided high intensity focused ultrasound system in the treatment of primary trigeminal neuralgia<\/a><\/strong>. Med Hypotheses. 2020 Mar 25;139:109688. doi: 10.1016\/j.mehy.2020.109688.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Franzini A, Moosa S, D&#8217;Ammando A, Bono B, Scheitler-Ring K, Ferroli P, Messina G, Prada F, Franzini A.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/30835002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>The neurosurgical treatment of craniofacial pain syndromes: current surgical indications and techniques<\/strong><\/a>. Neurol Sci. 2019 May;40(Suppl 1):159-168. doi: 10.1007\/s10072-019-03789-4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dallapiazza RF, Timbie KF, Holmberg S, Gatesman J, Lopes MB, Price RJ, Miller GW, Elias WJ.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/28430035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Noninvasive neuromodulation and thalamic mapping with low-intensity focused ultrasound<\/strong><\/a>. J Neurosurg. 2018 Mar;128(3):875-884. doi: 10.3171\/2016.11.JNS16976. Epub 2017 Apr 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/?term=%28%22focused+ultrasound%22+OR+HIFU%29+and+%22trigeminal+neuralgia%22&amp;sort=date\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Click <\/strong>here<\/a> for additional references from PubMed.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":2,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"sw_disease_condition_cat":[6],"sw_disease_condition_stage":[19,20],"class_list":["post-3065","sw_disease_condition","type-sw_disease_condition","status-publish","hentry","sw_disease_condition_cat-neurological"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - 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