Bell’s palsy (Mugavatham) is a unilateral lower motor neuron facial paralysis of acute onset. Suttigai (Thermal cauterization) provides prompt relief. This study aims to establish the efficacy therapy in management Mugavatham. A 35-year-old male patient diagnosed with right-sided was treated therapy. The “House and Breckmann” assessment scale used evaluate case. After therapy, rating improved f...

BACKGROUND Functional evaluation of the facial movements in patients with facial paralysis following a stroke. AIM To evaluate the function of the facial muscles of patients after central facial paralysis following a stroke. METHOD Nine patients referred by the Neurology Service were evaluated. The evaluation focused on spontaneous, voluntary and reflex movements. RESULTS Reflex and volun...

Facial animation is an essential part of human communication and one of the main means of expressing emotions, indexing our physiologic state and providing nonverbal cues. The loss of this important human quality due to facial paralysis can be devastating and is often associated with depression, social isolation and poor quality of life. Interruption of the neuromuscular pathway from the facial...

PURPOSE To describe the association between entropion and pediatric facial nerve paralysis in the pediatric population. METHODS A retrospective case series was collected from 5 pediatric patients who required surgical correction for symptomatic entropion with a history of facial nerve palsy. RESULTS All 5 patients presented with epiphora and punctate keratopathy. Following surgical correcti...

Internal auditory canal (IAC) metastasis due to leptomeningeal carcinomatosis (LMC) from gastric cancer (GC) has rarely been reported. Early manifestation of symptoms, such as hearing loss, vertigo and facial paralysis, in cases of IAC metastasis due to LMC may facilitate the early detection of brain metastasis. To the best of our knowledge, the present study is the first to report IAC metastas...

The facial nerve is commonly involved in neural sarcoidosis, but there is only one reported case in which bilateral facial paralysis was the sole manifestation of sarcoidosis. We report a case of sarcoidosis presenting with bilateral facial paralysis as the only sign. The pathology, clinical presentation, pathophysiology and diagnosis of sarcoidosis has been discussed.

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Therapeutic indication of peripheral facial paralysis depends on the degree of nerve injury. Severe facial palsy (electroneuronographic study less than or equal to 10%) leads to healing with sequelae. The sequelae of facial paralysis are contractures, hemifacial spasm and synkinesis.Our purpose was to demonstrate that these patients could benefit from rehabilitation ...