The possibility of osteopathic correction methods in the treatment of facial pain

Abstract

The problem of the headaches occurrence is currently relevant among medical specialists of various profi les due to the fact that this symptom does not have a clear etiopathogenetic picture, and when patients come in with such a complaint, it sometimes requires a rather complex differential diagnosis. This is especially true for certain types of headaches (for example, facial pain — prosopalgia), the diagnosis of the causes of which is diffi cult due to the possible involvement of the ENT organs, the organ of vision, the dentoalveolar system and, of course, due to the complex system of innervation. Despite the fact that a lot of attention has been paid to this issue in the literature, there are still many such patients, and in a large number of cases this reduces not only their ability to work and life quality, but also brings signifi cant socio-economic damage to the whole society. The question of competent and effective care for this category of patients remains open, since often complex drug treatment does not bring the desired result, or it brings a temporary positive effect, and all these open up opportunities for the introduction of non-drug approaches, both in the form of monotherapy and in the form of combined treatment, taking into account features of the pain syndrome course and its occurrence causes in each patient individually. The article describes a clinical case from practice devoted to the isolated use of osteopathic correction in a patient with symptoms of prosopalgia.