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Stimulated by positive reports of patients who were treated with CO2-gas injections during a sanatorium stay in the CSSR and after evaluation of the literature, we began with the CO2-gas injection in our patients in 1983. The following disturbances and groups of diseases were included as indication to this form of therapy: 1. Cervico-cranial syndrome, in particular pains in the neck, contractions of the neck, headache including migraine and vertigo 2. Cervico-brachial syndrome 3. Lumbalgia with and without root-irritation syndrome 4. Other pain conditions at the apparatus of locomotion (by degenerative changes, muscular contractions and others). Before the beginning of the therapy the diagnoses were clinically and paraclinically clarified. The therapeutic mechanism is explained by the physiological irritation, which is evoked by the high CO2-concentrations in the tissue and leads to an increase of the blood supply in the adequate region. The results of the therapy are convincing.
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PMID:[CO2 gas injection--indications and results]. 312 16

Trigeminal neuralgia and postherpetic neuralgia are the most relevant neuralgiform facial pain syndromes. Trigeminal neuralgia is characterized by lancinating intensive pain attacks of very short duration, triggered by external cues,whereas postherpetic neuralgia consists predominantly of long-lasting burning pain. Sodium channel blocking drugs are first choice in treatment of trigeminal neuralgia, operative procedures encompass microvascular decompression,thermocoagulation and percutaneous retrogasserian glycerol rhizotomy. In the acute stage postherpetic neuralgia is treated antivirally and analgesically, in the chronic stage by tricyclic antidepressive substances. Other pain syndromes described encompass the Tolosa-Hunt-syndrome, cervicogenic headache, craniomandibular dysfunction syndrome, atypical facial pain and rarer syndromes. Therapeutic recommendations are based on evidence based medicine criteria (EBM).
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PMID:[Therapy and prophylaxis of facial neuralgias and other forms of facial pain syndromes -- revised recommendations of the German Society of Migraine and Headache]. 1257 91