One day when Alan Grieco was in his fifties, without warning, a pain on the side of his face started. It was stabbing, sudden and sharp as lightning. Grieco sought relief and received the diagnosis trigeminal neuralgia, one of the worst facial pain syndromes known.
Susan Tillsley was the office klutz. If people heard a crash, they said, “Oh, it’s just Susan.” She hadn’t always been such a klutz. It started when she was in…
It happens every year in April, but each time Dr. Anthony D’Ambrosio is surprised and delighted: on his birthday he receives a thank-you card from his patient Lillian Wellington. In 2010…
Ask anyone around here and you will hear that patients love Dr. Anthony D’Ambrosio. As a neurosurgeon, he deeply affects the lives of his patients and their families. This is the nature of his profession but also …
Trigeminal neuralgia, sometimes called the “suicide disease,” is reportedly one of the worst of the facial pain syndromes and it is also one of the most common. The pain occurs in short bursts, usually on one side of the face, and is described as “stabbing” or like an “electrical shock” …
