Treatment of panic disorder by trigeminal nerve manipulation: A case series

This is a report on two cases of patients with acute severe panic disorder relieved of their symptoms by manual manipulations of the trigeminal nerve's alveolar branches. The manipulations were performed via the oral cavity during one session, or two consecutive sessions less than a week apart. No other effective treatment was administered prior, concurrently or since the time of the treatment. The recovery from panic disorder was immediate and lasted for the entire period of observation of three years. The authors used the same procedure and achieved identical clinical results treating ten other clients over a period of three years. This was not a planned experiment or randomized study. Rather, this report presents clinical evidence and the authors' hypothesis based on clinical data and literature review.