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Neurology 2001;57:1712-1713
© 2001 American Academy of Neurology
Brief Communications

Shoulder pain relieved by root canal

Darren Orbach, MD PhD and Emile Hiesiger, MD

From the Department of Neurology, New York University Medical Center, NY.

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. E. Hiesiger, Department of Neurology, New Bellevue, 5th Fl., 560 First Ave., New York, NY 10016; e-mail: doctor{at}hiesiger.com

The authors report a 73-year-old man with moderately severe shoulder pain of 6 months’ duration. The pain resolved suddenly and completely with root canal in a premolar tooth ipsilateral to the shoulder, and the patient has remained pain-free over the ensuing 6 months.