Pain like nothing else
Sudden, severe, electric-shock-like facial pain, often triggered by the lightest touch, a cold drink, shaving, even talking. Episodes can last seconds or minutes and recur throughout the day.
Trigeminal Neuralgia
They call it the “suicide disease” for a reason. You just call it Tuesday.
Electric-shock facial pain triggered by brushing your teeth, a breeze, a bite of food. Episodes that come without warning and leave you afraid of the next one. You’ve tried anticonvulsants, maybe considered or had a procedure, and the pain still runs your life. There is a different way to approach trigeminal neuralgia: calm the nerve’s misfiring directly.
- Practicing in Fort Lauderdale since 1994
- Referrals from neurologists welcomed
Why medication alone often isn’t enough
Living in anticipation
Avoiding chewing on one side. Flinching before a touch that hasn’t landed yet. The exhausting vigilance of never knowing when the next jolt will hit, and the isolation of a pain almost no one around you understands.
Medication manages the signal. It doesn’t calm the source.
Anticonvulsants can dull the nerve’s excitability, but many patients see effectiveness fade over time or face side effects that make daily life harder. You deserve treatment aimed at the nerve’s amplified signaling itself.
The gap in standard trigeminal neuralgia care
The standard playbook is anticonvulsant medication, and if that fails, invasive procedures like microvascular decompression or radiosurgery. What’s missing for many patients is a non-invasive option that directly addresses nerve irritation before those more drastic steps.
Calming a nerve that’s stuck in overdrive
Patients arrive here on multiple medications, some with diminishing returns, others facing decisions about invasive procedures. This clinic’s approach targets the trigeminal nerve’s irritation and signaling directly.
The clinical logic: The acupuncture addresses amplified and misfiring nerve signaling. ATP Resonance BioTherapy® supports cellular repair in irritated nerve fibers. O3 ReBoot Therapy® supports circulation to the nerve and surrounding tissue.
How we work with your doctor
Nothing changes with your medications except through your neurologist. Physicians across Broward County send us the trigeminal neuralgia cases weighing invasive procedures against a non-invasive option first, and many patients simply send themselves. This is not a substitute for emergency care during a severe flare.
Susan Mitchell, AP
Clinical Director · 30+ years
You’re Not a Case Number
Your protocol, personalized
There’s no fixed number of visits and no generic timeline. Your treatment frequency, therapy mix, and program length are set at your evaluation and adjusted at every visit based on how you’re actually responding.
What shapes your plan
Severity & duration
How long you’ve had it and how far it’s progressed sets your starting intensity.
Your response
Visit frequency steps up or down based on your measured progress at each visit, not a preset week count.
Your goal
Symptom relief, or a return to the things you miss: we define the finish line with you, not for you.
Candidacy comes first: the evaluation determines whether the program fits your case; cost is discussed in person after that.
The Plan
Three steps, starting with the consultation
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$45 initial consultation
Bring your medication history and trigger patterns. We evaluate your case, including whether you’re not a candidate.
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Personalized protocol
A plan built around your specific trigger zones and episode frequency. Progress is measured against your day-one baseline, not guessed, and the plan adjusts as you respond.
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Reclaim your life
Brush your teeth. Feel the breeze. Eat without flinching.
What Unguarded Feels Like
A face that’s just a face again
Washing your face without a countdown.
A conversation you don’t cut short.
Wind on your cheek that’s just wind.
Untreated, episodes tend to intensify and multiply
Trigeminal neuralgia often follows a pattern of increasing frequency and severity over time without intervention. The anticipatory anxiety alone can reshape daily habits, eating, speaking, even smiling. Early, direct treatment of the nerve may help interrupt that trajectory.
Questions, Answered
Trigeminal Neuralgia FAQs
No. Medication decisions remain your neurologist’s. Many patients continue medication alongside treatment, at least initially.
That’s a conversation for you and your neurosurgeon, but many patients explore non-invasive options first. The consultation determines whether your case is likely to respond.
We work carefully around known trigger zones and adjust technique to minimize discomfort during sessions.
General-purpose acupuncture is not a trigeminal neuralgia protocol. Your program combines acupuncture with ATP Resonance BioTherapy® and O3 ReBoot Therapy® in a staged, personalized clinical structure, a fundamentally different intervention.
Patients who respond typically notice a shift in episode frequency within the initial treatment phase, though nerve conditions can take longer to stabilize than musculoskeletal ones, and timing varies from person to person.
Facial pain has many possible sources, and conditions like dental problems, sinus issues, cluster or migraine headaches, and other nerve conditions can sometimes feel similar. Because of that overlap, getting an accurate diagnosis from a physician matters before assuming any single cause. We’re not able to make that call for you.
It’s a reasonable concern with pain this sensitive to touch. We take facial trigger points into account and work gently, adjusting or stopping if anything feels aggravating rather than calming.
Book Your Consultation
Your body has been sending the message for a while. Answer it.
Your initial consultation is $45. Tell us your story, and we’ll evaluate your case.
Visit us
3471 North Federal Highway, Suite 500
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33306
Physicians
Physicians across Broward County refer patients here; a phone call is all it takes.
New Patient Offer
$45 Initial Consultation
Book your first visit
We’ll confirm by call or text, usually the same day.
No referral required · We coordinate with your physician.