![]() As a pain management specialist, I knew SGB relieved problems related to the sympathetic nerve system and thought it could work to relieve the hyperarousal characteristic of PTSD," Lipov said. ![]() "This was not something I just stumbled on. Lipov, who uses the nerve block to treat patients for facial and neck pain, knew SGB relieves menopause-related hot flashes and theorized that because it seems to "reboot" the body's temperature-regulating mechanism, it might reset a PTSD patient's overreaction to stimulus - their "fight or flight" response - by interrupting connections between the sympathetic nervous system and central nervous system. Eugene Lipov, a Chicago-area pain management specialist. First developed to address shoulder, neck and face pain caused by the Herpes Zoster (shingles) virus and complex regional pain syndrome, SGB has been used to treat PTSD since 2008, initially tested by Dr.
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