As you may have noticed, my primary focus is wellness by treating my body as it was designed to be treated. But occasionally, I learn of ways that physicians have assisted a patient to wellness using such techniques as surgery.
One current such example is found on a National Public Radio report of November 9, 2009. The report begins, "Trigeminal neuralgia is a rare condition that causes pain so intense it used to be known as the suicide disease." In at least one instance, the unbearable pain was relieved by surgically pulling out and away from the nerve a blood vessel that had become trapped in a loop behind the nerve.
See the report and included video of the patient and the surgery (not for the squeamish) at this link.
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