BACKGROUND While standardized methods are established to examine the pathway from motorcortex to the peripheral nerve in patients with facial palsy, a reliable method to evaluate the facial muscles in patients with long-term palsy for therapy planning is lacking. METHODS A 3D ultrasonographic (US) acquisition system driven by a motorized linear mover combined with conventional US probe was us...

QUESTION What is the effect of mime therapy on facial symmetry and severity of paresis in people with facial nerve paresis? DESIGN Randomised controlled trial. PARTICIPANTS 50 people recruited from the Outpatient department of two metropolitan hospitals with facial nerve paresis for more than nine months. INTERVENTION The experimental group received three months of mime therapy consisting...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between prognosis of 2 different facial palsies and pretreatment hematologic laboratory values. STUDY DESIGN Multicenter case series with chart review. SETTING Three tertiary care hospitals. SUBJECTS AND METHODS We examined the clinical records of 468 facial palsy patients who were treated with an antiviral drug in combination with either oral or intr...

[Purpose] Hemiplegia occurs when posturing with a dominant flexor tone is present in the upper limbs, thus preventing increased abnormal tone. We attempted to improve the side effects of this condition using elbow re-positioning with non-elastic tape; this method is used to modulate abnormal muscle tone in chronic hemiplegic stroke patients. [Subjects and Methods] Fourteen post-stroke patients ...

OBJECTIVES Success of laryngeal reanimation through neurorrhaphy has been limited by synkinesis and preoperative muscle atrophy. The objective of this study was to investigate the use of epimysial electrode arrays as a means of delivering electrical stimulation to the posterior cricoarytenoid muscles in order to control laryngeal abduction. METHODS Ribbon electrode arrays with 4 or 8 electrod...

PURPOSE To examine accommodation and accommodative convergence relationships in naturally strabismic monkeys. METHODS Photorefraction was used to measure accommodative responses of each eye under monocular and binocular viewing conditions. These accommodative results were then compared to assessments of vergence state made under monocular viewing conditions using methods previously described....

BACKGROUND There are a variety of treatment options for Bell's palsy. Evidence from randomized controlled trials indicates corticosteroids can be used as a proven therapy for Bell's palsy. Acupuncture is one of the most commonly used methods to treat Bell's palsy in China. Recent studies suggest that staging treatment is more suitable for Bell's palsy, according to different path-stages of this...

Investigations into the progression of myopia in children have long considered the role of accommodation as a cause and solution. Myopic children show high levels of accommodative adaptation, coupled with accommodative lag and high response AC/A (accommodative convergence per diopter of accommodation). This pattern differs from that predicted by current models of interaction between accommodati...