facial palsy

Additionally, a common treatment option for facial palsy is to use electrical stimulation.

In endemic areas Lyme disease may be the most common cause of facial palsy.

In 1940, aged 15, Greer suffered from a facial palsy, which paralyzed the left side of her face.

Facial palsy is partial or complete paralysis of portions of the face.

It was initially designed to treat facial palsy by improving symmetry of the face both at rest and during movement.

Central facial palsy is the paralysis of the lower half of one side of the face.

Babies can be born with facial palsy.

Central Facial palsy occurs in patients who are hemiplegic.

Facial palsy is typified by inability to control movement in the facial muscles.

This may affect one of more cranial nerves, resulting in various kinds of facial palsies.

These included bilateral ptosis, facial palsy and generalized muscular weakness.

In a few cases, bilateral facial palsy has been associated with acute HIV infection.

Through electrophysiological studies and neuronal tracing, these characteristics do not fully support the typical person with central facial palsy.

Patients with facial palsy for which an underlying cause can be found are not considered to have Bell's palsy per se.

Edmunds characterized himself as a "fighter" telling how he had worked throughout life to counter the facial palsy that afflicted him at birth.

When central facial palsy occurs, there are lesions in the corticobulbar tract between the cerebral cortex.

Central facial palsy can be caused by a lacunar infarct affecting fibers in the internal capsule going to the nucleus.

The department is also part of the first and largest multidisciplinary expert facial palsy team, treating palsy and paralysis patients from across the country.

He is credited as being the first physician to perform a facial nerve to spinal accessory nerve anastomosis for treatment of facial palsy.

Central facial palsy is often characterized by either hemiparalysis or hemiparesis of the contra-lateral muscles in facial expression.

Branches of the facial nerve run through the substance of the parotid gland and so this is manifest as a transient facial palsy.

Chronic encephalomyelitis, which may be progressive, can involve cognitive impairment, weakness in the legs, awkward gait, facial palsy, bladder problems, vertigo, and back pain.

In pregnant women, the toxin can cross the placenta and result in bizarre fetal movements and, after delivery, facial palsies in newborns.

Another more severe form of facial palsy, called Ramsay-Hunt syndrome, is linked to herpes zoster infection of the facial nerve.

Electromyographical biofeedback or myofeedback could provide patients who suffer from central facial palsy the ability to create myo-electrical potentials that they will interpret.