Nerve Injury

Nerve Injury

Signs and Symptoms
Diagnosis
Treatments

Signs and Symptoms

Nerve injuries affecting the trigeminal nerve can cause episodes of intense, stabbing, electric shock-like pain in the areas of the face where the branches of the trigeminal nerve are distributed, including the lips, eyes, nose, scalp, forehead, upper jaw and lower jaw.

Reviewed by health care specialists at UCSF Medical Center.
Last updated May 8, 2007