TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA –
BURNING MOUTH SYNDROME

Trigeminal Neuralgia – Burning Mouth Syndrome

Before exploring our innovative therapy treatment solution for Trigeminal Neuralgia – Burning Mouth Syndrome, it’s essential for you to understand the complexities of this condition. This document aims to address any questions or concerns you may have regarding our highly effective non-surgical therapy treatment solution.

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Section 1: Our Ground-Breaking Therapy Treatment Solution
Section 2: Understanding The Complexities of Burning Mouth Syndrome
Section 3: Understanding Fascia
Section 4: Myofascial Adhesions: Source of the Problem
Section 5: Causes of Burning Mouth Syndrome
Section 6: Your Next Step

Section 1: Our Ground-Breaking Therapy Treatment Solution

Our therapy solution for Burning Mouth Syndrome (BMS) is a groundbreaking approach developed over the past 15 years studying and treating this complex condition.

Burning Mouth Syndrome is a debilitating condition where the trigeminal and/or facial nerves are damaged due to various causes. Resolving it requires a dynamic diagnostic process and treatment solution, which we have successfully developed.

The most common causes we have identified for BMS over the years were due to neck arthritis, whiplash and its long-term affects, and chronic stress. (Section 5: Causes of Burning Mouth Syndrome)

Our dynamic treatment protocol addresses soft tissue damage in the neck and jaw, structural faults involving vertebrae/discs/jaw, and most importantly, damaged nerves. (see more below – 4. Addressing Root Causes)

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Our Therapy Treatments Will:

1. Break Apart Adhesions responsible for nerve compression, if present.
2. Remove Damage (inflammation/scarring/trauma/sclerosis) from nerves, preparing them for regeneration.
3. Regenerate the Nerves to restore normal function.
4. Address Primary Root Causes contributing to BMS.
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1. Breaking the Adhesions

We apply shockwave therapy, a technology originally developed to break apart kidney stones, to disintegrate adhesions in the neck and jaw. The applicator we exclusively use for shockwave therapy treatments is manufactured by EMS Technology in Germany. Considered the worldwide authority on EMS technology, they hold the original patents developed over 40 years ago.

Shockwave therapy treatments target collagen bonds within adhered fascial fibers, which can compress the trigeminal and facial nerves as they pass through the neck to the jaw and face. (Section 4: Myofascial Adhesions: Source of the Problem)

Treatment Process:
• A gel is applied to the skin over the adhesions , then an hand-held applicator is depressed against the skin to begin producing the acoustic waves required to reach deep into the hardened adhesions.
• Sessions begin with low-intensity waves, gradually increasing in intensity and depth to effectively treat all muscular adhesions in the neck and jaw area.

Having administered over 300 million shockwaves to date, Glenn uses the highly sensitive touch he developed learning braile and shockwave application skills, to monitor your responses and adjust the treatment parameters accordingly to ensure optimal outcomes.

Treatments ensure the return of normal blood flow to the neck and jaw, allowing essential oxygen for both muscle and nerve regeneration, as well as for the outflow of metabolic waste products.

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What to Expect During Treatment
Throughout treatment, you may feel slight pressure as adhesions are broken apart, with immediate relief from symptoms. Our founder uses advanced palpation skills to locate and monitor adhesion dissolution and to adjust treatment as needed.

You will experience re-creation of your specific symptoms (burning/pins & needles/taste of metal) as we break apart adhesions responsible for those symptoms. Then within minutes you feel the enormous relief to your mouth as the nerve no longer causes those sensations. It is an amazing experience.

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Post-Treatment Effects
You can expect skin tenderness, and perhaps slight swelling in the regions of the adhesions for up to 4 days following the first treatment. This is an essential part of the treatment process as we want the body to respond by swelling so the broken collagen proteins can be removed from the treated region by the lymphatic system, and the tissue regeneration phase may then begin.

Every subsequent treatment thereafter will trigger far less symptoms. This is because only adhered tissue cause the symptoms (reaction), healthy tissue causes none.

Treatments are designed to fit seamlessly into your daily routine, with no need to alter your activities. The effectiveness of our EMS shockwave technology provides significant symptom relief, often immediately after treatment.
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2. Preparing the Nerves for Regeneration

Specialized electrical frequency technology is used to prepare the trigeminal and facial nerves for regeneration by:
• Removing chronic inflammation and calcification from the nerve body
• Removing fibrosis/sclerosis from nerve cells
• Restoring normal blood flow and oxygen to encourage healing
• Normalizing ion flow to return nerve function

This phase involves placing wet towels on the neck and stomach to allow electrical impulses to penetrate the body. The microcurrent is painless and imperceptible.
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3. Regenerating the Trigeminal and Facial Nerves

Using world-leading nerve regeneration technology, we stimulate nerve repair and restore normal function. Sticky pads placed on the neck near the nerve exits deliver gentle electrical impulses, creating a slight buzzing sensation as regeneration begins.
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4. Addressing Root Causes

BMS often arises as a secondary condition resulting from primary issues. Common root causes we’ve identified include:
• Chronic neck/jaw adhesions from long-term stress
• Neck arthritis
• Complications from whiplash
• Dental implants or extractions
• Chronic shoulder problems

In this final stage, we treat each individual’s specific causes as determined by our assessment. Using a combination of our technologies, we tailor treatment to achieve the best outcomes.

For a more detailed, case-specific explanation, we will provide a tailored assessment and treatment plan after an initial evaluation.

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Success Rates and Considerations
As specialists in chronic pain therapy, we have achieved a success rate of over 75% with BMS cases. However, achieving 100% success is often limited by the extent of pre-existing nerve damage, particularly in long-term cases. While severe damage can be challenging to reverse, we believe in the value of at least attempting treatment.

Section 2: Understanding The Complexities of Burning Mouth Syndrome

To begin, it’s important to note that two distinct nerves provide all sensory functions to the mouth and entire surrounding region. These two nerves are the trigeminal and facial nerves.

Trigeminal and Facial Nerve Anatomy

The trigeminal nerve and its branches provide sensory functions to the skin of the lower face and jaw, teeth and gums, tongue, salivary glands, palate, mandible (jaw bone), and skin of the chin and lips. The facial nerve provides sensory functions to the skin on the upper face, nose, eyelids, and surprisingly, a portion of the tongue as well.

Both nerves exit the brain through openings at the base of the skull and travel through the muscles of the upper neck, around the ear, and deep into the jaw before entering the jaw and face.

All peripheral nerves are comprised of both sensory and motor fibers. Motor fibers carry neurological impulses to cause muscles to contract, while sensory fibers carry impulses for every sensation we feel. Burning mouth syndrome is a nerve compression condition affecting the sensory fibers of both the trigeminal and facial nerves.

When nerves are physically compressed, stretched, or chemically irritated by agents such as chemotherapy, high sodium/glucose (diabetes), or decreased oxygen levels, they produce specific symptoms depending on the affected nerve fibers.

For example, nerve fibers that carry hot/cold sensations to the brain are responsible for the burning sensations experienced anywhere in the body, including the mouth (burning mouth syndrome). Other nerve fibers that carry taste sensations are involved when burning mouth sufferers taste metal or other unusual tastes, including blood. Dry mouth occurs when the nerve fibers controlling the salivary glands are affected.

Here is a comprehensive list of sensory functions that the trigeminal and facial nerve fibers are capable of sensing:

As you can see, the symptoms of burning mouth syndrome are the result of facial and/or trigeminal nerve dysfunction. The muscles and their protective fascia in the entire neck region develop problems that directly affect the pathway of the nerves as they pass through this tissue from the base of the neck and clavicle up to the face and jaw.

The key to understanding burning mouth syndrome and its causes is understanding muscle health and the fascia that every muscle is comprised of.

Section 3: Understanding Muscular Fascia

Fascia is an extremely robust yet pliable type of connective tissue, predominantly comprised of collagen and elastin fibers. It intricately envelops and safeguards every living muscle and nerve fiber (cell) within the body’s muscular framework.

While collagen provides the necessary strength to shield and protect these sensitive muscle and nerve cells, elastin allows for the essential stretching and contracting ability that every muscle and nerve requires.

The prefix “Myo” pertains to the fascia associated with muscles, derived from the Greek term for muscle. Remarkably, a single muscle may contain upwards of 500,000 living muscle cells, each encased within a protective fascial covering known as endomysium. Clusters of these fascia-wrapped muscle cells, numbering around 20,000 in each bundle, are encased by another layer of fascia called epimysium. Finally, the entire muscle ensemble is enveloped by a third type of fascia called perimysium, which gives each muscle its distinct shape.

At all three levels, fascia serves to bind and protect the living muscle cells. Muscular fascia has excellent blood flow, facilitated by the vascular network of the living muscle cells, which supplies essential nutrients to the collagen and elastin fibers within the fascia. This system ensures that muscular fascia is adept at absorbing forces exerted during muscle contraction or stretching, allowing for the joint movement and work that muscles perform.

Section 4: Myofascial Adhesions – Source of the Problem

Myofascial adhesions, commonly known as adhesions, are regions of severely hardened and adhered fascial fibers amidst otherwise healthy, elastic fascial tissue. The ratio of collagen and elastin changes, resulting in more inflexible collagen fibers and fewer elastic, pliable elastin fibers. The result is a phenomenon where normally straight, healthy muscle fibers see an influx of new collagen fibers that twist and bind other fibers together like glue, forming an intricate weave of cross-bridged collagen fibers that changes the muscle’s tissue structure.

These adhered fascial fibers create dysfunctional, inelastic, fibrotic, and ischemic bands or large regions within the muscle’s fascial connective tissue layers and even throughout the entire muscle. The term adhesion (adhesive) commonly associated with glue aptly describes this phenomenon.

Adhesions typically form in the fascial tissue layers due to excessive and repetitive strain on its muscular fibers. The cross-bridged collagen fiber influx is the body’s unique method of protecting the living muscle cells from damage, as living muscle cells can die, leading to muscle wasting and atrophy.

The result of all this hardening, glueing, twisting, and deformation of a muscle causes:

Fortunately, the human body possesses an innate resilience, designed to safeguard every living muscle cell under duress. When myofascial tissue is deprived of sufficient recovery time, the body initiates a compensatory mechanism, generating new collagen fibers that intertwine individual fascial fibers in a cross-bridged pattern. This process fortifies the fascial network by binding individual muscle cells and their fascial coverings together, enhancing overall structural integrity.

These cross-bridged collagen fibers act as natural adhesives, binding groups of fascial fibers together to form a cohesive, robust unit, thus shielding the strained fibers from further damage. The term “adhesion (adhesive),” commonly associated with glue, aptly describes this phenomenon, where fascial fibers become bound together, reinforcing the tissue against overexertion.

Consequences of Adhesion Formation & Burning Mouth Syndrome

The formation of adhesions initiates a cascade of consequences, as these fibrous connections begin to compress the arteries, veins, and free nerve endings within the layers of fascia surrounding muscles and the neurovascular bundle that lies beneath. Consequently, a persistent low-grade pain manifests whenever muscles affected by adhered fascia are engaged. Additionally, these adhesions have the propensity to shorten certain bands of fascial fibers, exacerbating discomfort upon contraction or stretching of the affected muscles.

With Burning Mouth Syndrome, the repetitive strain adhesion formation can be attributed to various activities, including:

• Prolonged periods of computer usage with poor ergonomics
• Sustained tilting of the head to view a phone screen
• Engaging in sports without proper muscular conditioning
• Strain imposed by poor posture
• Emotional stress
• Breast enlargement
• Post-breast cancer surgery
• Substantial weight gain
• Chemotherapy
• Dental procedures

Each of these activities contributes to the overstrain of the muscles in the neck, jaw, and face, which have very thin layers of fascia. Over time, the fascia hardens and shortens, entrapping the delicate nerve fibers of the trigeminal and facial nerves.

The sensory dysfunction of these nerves leads to various symptoms such as burning, dull pain, pins and needles, dry mouth, metallic taste, and others associated with burning mouth syndrome.

Section 5: Causes of Burning Trigeminal Neuralgia – Burning Mouth Syndrome

As stated above, the most likely cause of burning mouth syndrome is due to nerve entrapment, compression, and ischemic deprivation of the trigeminal and facial nerves as they travel through the fascia and muscles of the neck, jaw, and face.

The most common cause of repetitive strain injury and adhesions of the fascia and muscles of the face, jaw, and neck is sustained poor posture. With poor posture, the muscles of the neck and upper back remain in a semi-contracting state, causing them to stiffen and shorten. This leads to the overstrain of the fascia, which eventually leads to the formation of adhesions.

While posture may be the most common cause, there are other contributing factors to developing myofascial adhesions in the muscles and fascia of the face, jaw, and neck that lead to burning mouth syndrome.

These factors include but are not limited to:

• Emotional Stress
• Breast Enlargement
• Post-Breast Cancer Surgery
• Substantial Weight Gain
• Chemotherapy
• Dental Procedures
• Long Computer Sessions
• Neck Arthritis

Additionally, neck trauma, such as whiplash or falls, can lead to an almost immediate onset of symptoms due to the injury’s impact on the fascia, muscles, and nerves in the neck, jaw, and face.

Section 6: Your Next Step

If you are suffering from Burning Mouth Syndrome and have not found relief through traditional treatments, we invite you to contact us to learn more about our innovative therapy treatment solution. Our team of experts is dedicated to helping you achieve lasting relief and improved quality of life.

Take the first step towards a pain-free life by reaching out to us today.