Finally, she was diagnosed with glossopharyngeal neuralgia, a rare syndrome that causes pain in the throat, tongue, ear and tonsils. It and other conditions in the neuralgia family are nicknamed ...

The glossopharyngeal nerve, which is also called the ninth cranial nerve, has both sensory (sensation) functions and motor ...

Three nerves carry taste signals to the brain stem: the chorda tympani nerve (from the front of the tongue), the glossopharyngeal nerve (from the back of the tongue) and the vagus nerve (from the ...

and attempt to spend time out of his iron lung to learn the complicated glossopharyngeal breathing technique, the medical term for frog-breathing. "He was scared of course of choking to death ...

Despite what well-meaning doctors tell us, not all of us avoid putting things in our ears. From Q-tips to clean out your ears ...

A few months later we were shown a training film about glossopharyngeal breathing (“frog-breathing”) made at Rancho Los Amigos, the rehab center in Los Angeles. I learned how to do it ...

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2. Supra- or infra-nuclear injury to the hypoglossal or glossopharyngeal nucleus, which result in upper motor neuron disease (lesions upstream of the medulla oblongata that can impact somatomotor, and ...