When you suffer from chronic and debilitating pain in your face, you may have a tough time figuring out treatment options that will work for you. Trigeminal neuralgia, the condition that causes severe facial pain and discomfort, can be tricky to deal with. The nerves and blood vessels that are involved are delicate, and surgery as well as other medical procedures have some serious risks associated with them and may end up being ineffective anyway. However, this does not mean that you should resign yourself to constant pain and misery. There are alternative treatments that you can try that may help you with your trigeminal neuralgia. 

Chiropractic Care

You may not think that going to a chiropractor would necessarily help with facial pain. However, because trigeminal neuralgia is a condition that involves the nerves, it just may be the pain reduction tool you are looking for.

Family chiropractic care focuses primarily on the spine and its alignment. If the bones in the spine have somehow shifted out of place and are misaligned, then the nerves that run along the spinal column suffer the consequences. They may be pinched, blocked, or disrupted so that they cannot send proper signals throughout the body. This can cause pain, discomfort, and other ailments and can contribute to the nerves in your face not working properly.

Manual manipulations and spinal adjustments to get those vertebrae back into alignment can relieve the pressure from the nerves along your spine, which can in turn, reduce the pain you experience from your trigeminal neuralgia. You may need several sessions with a chiropractor to see results--and they may not be permanent--but the treatments combined with exercises at home can provide some pain relief so that you can function normally.

Massage Therapy

Getting a massage involves what is known as soft tissue manipulation. The massage therapist focuses on the muscles rather than the skeletal system to help relieve pain. In the case of trigeminal neuralgia, you may find yourself with a great deal of tension in your back, shoulders, and especially your neck because of the condition. This can affect blood flow and can even affect the nerves themselves. A massage of those areas to relieve tension and work out muscle knots can have an immediate calming and relaxing effect and will also then reduce your facial pain and discomfort in many cases.

Now that you know a few of the alternative medicine options for treating your trigeminal neuralgia, you can give them a try and see if they can give you some relief.