Find out what you need to know about the glossopharyngeal nerve. Learn about its location, functions, and the problems caused by injuries to this nerve.

Neuralgia is pain due to nerve damage. In glossopharyngeal neuralgia, the primary symptom is pain in the throat and base of the tongue that's triggered by swallowing, chewing, coughing, and yawning.

Glossopharyngeal neuralgia is a pain syndrome caused by compression of your ninth cranial nerve, also known as the glossopharyngeal nerve. You have one of these nerves on each side of your head.

Jill Becher spent more than three years in agonizing pain. After one surgery failed, a riskier treatment provided relief.

Cranial Nerve IX, the glossopharyngeal nerve, innervates the parotid glands, two glands that sit in front of your ears and produce 10 percent of your saliva; and during eating, up to 25 percent.

Each cranial nerve has a specific function; the location of cranial-nerve injury can be pinpointed with patient history and careful examination. This video shows how to perform a comprehensive cran ...

After a tonsillectomy, nerve pain originating in the throat may travel through the glossopharyngeal nerve into the ears.

Glossopharyngeal: Associated with muscle movement and collecting information. The glossopharyngeal nerve shares information from your external and middle ear, the back area of your tongue, and ...

Third, why is swallowing dysfunction associated with RLN injury? At first glance this would seem unlikely, as pharyngeal constricting muscles are innervated by the glossopharyngeal nerve.