Saturday 2 February 2013

Facial palsy- pontine haemorrhage

I'm currently working with a client who has had a pontine haemorrhage. She has a severe right facial palsy, reduced tongue range of movement, reduced jaw range of movement (limiting her to a soft diet), flaccid lower motor neurone dysarthria and one and a half syndrome. One of her goals is to be able to smile more symmetrically and feel better about her facial weakness. I'm thinking of doing some facial taping with her as she reported she felt this helped increase the activation of her right facial muscles. Currently i've just been researching support networks and charities for facial weakness. Here's what i've got so far:

http://bellspalsy.org.uk/

http://www.changingfaces.org.uk/Home

http://www.lets-face-it.org.uk/


2 comments:

  1. Hi, there's a new charity called Facial Palsy UK - http://www.facialpalsy.org.uk - It's backed by Health Professionals, email the charity if you would like more info.

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