Nerve Injuries

Why choose us for nerve injury care?

BJC HealthCare works with WashU Medicine Physicians, BJC Medical Group, and providers across the region to deliver extraordinary care. Your nerves are responsible for multiple functions, including motor signals, sensory functions, and regulating body processes, such as digestion and blood pressure. A nerve injury or condition can significantly affect your quality of life. We offer a range of nerve injury treatments, including the most advanced techniques available for severe nerve injuries.

We offer:

• Research-based treatments: Our team includes physicians who are pioneers in nerve surgery. These surgeons have developed a variety of techniques to reroute healthy nerves to areas of the body left paralyzed by damaged nerves. You receive treatment from a team of leading-edge experts.
• Trigeminal neuralgia care: Our neurosurgeons are the only specialists in the St. Louis region that offer the full spectrum of microvascular decompression, Gamma Knife®, and percutaneous procedures for trigeminal neuralgia, also known as tic douloureux. In fact, our system includes the only hospital in the region that offers Gamma Knife radiosurgery technology to treat this condition.
• Advanced techniques: We offer the most advanced methods for nerve treatment, including nerve regeneration, nerve grafting, and nerve transfer. These surgeries offer groundbreaking options for patients with very severe nerve injuries.

Nerve injury care

We offer the most advanced techniques, including grafting and nerve transfer procedures for severe nerve injuries. Pain therapy is provided for conditions ranging from trigeminal neuralgia to headaches. Treatment also is offered for common and more complex nerve-compression injuries.

Nerve compression syndrome

We offer comprehensive care for common nerve compression syndromes, including carpal tunnel syndrome, cubital tunnel syndrome, and tarsal tunnel syndrome.

Nerve injuries

Our nerve injury specialists are deeply versed in common and uncommon injuries to the nervous system, including brachial plexus injuries and lumbosacral plexus injuries.

Trigeminal neuralgia care

Trigeminal neuralgia causes sudden, extreme burning or shock-like face pain that lasts anywhere from a few seconds to two minutes. The intensity of the pain can be mind-numbing and physically incapacitating.

Some cases of trigeminal neuralgia respond to medications. If medicine doesn’t control symptoms, however, surgery may be an option. Our WashU Medicine neurosurgeons offer the full range of surgical options for trigeminal neuralgia, including:

• Microvascular decompression
• Gamma Knife radiosurgery
• Percutaneous radiofrequency rhizotomy