To the Atlético de Madrid A new problem has arisen for these weeks. Alvaro Morata He is not training due to acute trigeminal neuralgiaa serious health problem that affects the sensitivity of the face and causes painful episodes.
Few people know what is really happening to the red and white striker, but doctor Ignacio Velázquez has cleared up doubts by intervening in COPE’s Great Gamewhere he has assured that “It is one of the most common neuropathy conditions in the facial area”.
“It has been known since the 17th century, it is also known as the sun tic and it is effectively a disabling pain. It is a pain in the forehead, it is a brain pain, It is a pain that incapacitates the patient, but impairs their quality of life.. It hurts the face, the cheekbone or the ear, which is objectively the trigeminal nerve,” she explained.
The doctor has revealed that this condition has three branches: “The highest is the ophthalmic branch, the second is the maxillary branch that affects us in this area and the lowest is the mandibular branch, the normal one.”
“It’s a sudden pain, it’s a pain that those of us who have been treating for many years, We know that it is the most disabling painmore difficult to treat and more difficult to control,” he assured.
After explaining the different types of pain, Velázquez confessed that “of all, the most difficult to control, the most disabling and the one that deteriorates the quality of life the most is trigeminal neuralgia“, which is the one that affects Álvaro Morata.
Regarding the origin of this condition, the doctor has revealed that there are three possibilities: “The first is that it could be what what we call physicians, an essential, primary painthat is, it is not known what is the cause of its appearance.”
“Sometimes just eating, shaving or pouring cold water on your face triggers this condition“, he revealed, also stating that “there is another type of pain which is secondary pain which is sometimes as a consequence of an aberrant vessel that compresses a branch of the trigeminal nerve.”
“And thirdly, there are the infectious ones, which They may be due to multiple sclerosis, or it may be due to herpes zoster.“, he ended by saying. In addition, he said that the duration of the problem “depends on the cause” and that the best thing for the Atlético de Madrid forward is that it is due to “an aberrant vessel that is compressing a branch of the trigeminal “.
