The use of Sphenopalatine Ganglion Blocks for treating migraines, cluster headaches, sinus headaches and Autonomic Cephalgias are well known. Self-Administered Sphenopalatine Ganglion Blocks (Google SASPGB to learn more) are amazing because they can offer quick relief of pain and anxiety and do not utilize any drugs with negative side effects. In these two videos 2% lidocaine was used and delivered via a cotton-tipped catheter.
The videos speak for themselves.
Interesting fact is both soldiers had uneven hip heights measured at the Iliac Crest
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The Sphenopalatine Ganglion is the largest Parasympathetic Ganglion of the head but it also contains post gangliotic sympathetic nerves from the Stellate Ganglio and the Sympathetic Cervical chain via the Superior Cervical Sympathetic Ganglion.
This is basically a reset of the autonomic nervous system, like rebooting your computer by hitting Control/ Alt/ Delete
Pain is felt or experienced in the Amygdala where we perceive our emotions and is a negative sensory emotion.
The Stellate Ganglion is often blocked for Phantom Pain of the shoulder and arm and for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome or CRPS.
The Veterans Administration has found that a side effect of the Stellate Ganglion Block is elimination of PTSD or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder with asingle shot.
This had led to the Stellate Ganglion Block bing called “The God Block”
The Sphenopalatine Ganglion Block is often called “The Miracle Block” and it was discussed in the book “Miracles on Park Avenue” that detailed the practive of Dr Milton Reder octogenarian Otolaryngologist (ENT) whose entire practice was the use of Sphenopalatine Ganglion Blocks for treating many ailments from migraine to hives to trigeminal neuralgia without any negative side effects.
Greenfield Sluder who first described the blocks in 1908 later wrote a medical textbook “Nasal Neurology” about this block and more when he was Chair of Otolaryngology at Washing University School of Medicine in St Louis.