A 23 year old female graduate student had tripped and fallen in a parking lot bruising her cheekbone two years previously. Within a day or two, she began having symptoms which escalated to a full blown trigeminal neuralgia (tic douloureux.) IRT to the area of her cheek injury eliminated the pain in the office and the tic douloureux was gone. 

-DR. WALLY SCHMITT, CHAPEL HILL, NC