1. Electroneurography cannot predict when facial synkinesis develops in patients with facial palsy
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Yoshiaki Kitamura, Naoki Toda, Mika Takahashi, Koji Abe, Go Sato, Hitomi Miyoshi, Noriaki Takeda, Takahiro Azuma, Katsuhiko Nakamura, Hidetaka Iwasaki, and Teruhiko Fuchigami
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adolescent ,Synkinesis ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Facial Paralysis ,Biofeedback ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Young Adult ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Physical medicine and rehabilitation ,Electroneuronography ,medicine ,Humans ,In patient ,Aged ,Rehabilitation ,Palsy ,business.industry ,Electrodiagnosis ,Mean age ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,Neurofeedback ,medicine.disease ,Predictive factor ,stomatognathic diseases ,030228 respiratory system ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Female ,business - Abstract
The objective of this study is to clarify when facial palsy patients with lower value of Electroneurography (ENoG) should begin the rehabilitation to prevent the development of facial synkinesis. For this purpose, we examined the relationship between the value of ENoG measured 10-14 days after facial palsy onset and the onset day of the development of oral-ocular synkinesis. Sixteen patients with facial palsy including 11 with Bell's palsy and 5 with Ramsay Hunt syndrome (7 men and 9 women ; 15-73 years old ; mean age, 41.6 years) were enrolled in this study. There was no correlation between ENoG value and the onset day of the development of oral-ocular synkinesis (ρ = .09, p = .73). Oral-ocular synkinesis began to develop in 4.0 ± 0.7 months (mean ± SD ; range : 3.1-5.0 months) after facial palsy onset regardless of ENoG value. In conclusion, ENoG value cannot predict when facial synkinesis develops in patients with facial palsy. We recommend that facial palsy patients with a high risk for the development of synkinesis begin the biofeedback rehabilitation with mirror to prevent the development of facial synkinesis 3 months after facial palsy onset. J. Med. Invest. 67 : 87-89, February, 2020.
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- 2020
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