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amymeri

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Anyone had facial retraining or NMR for paralysis?
« on: June 24, 2006, 04:55:15 pm »
At 10 weeks post op I have no facial movement but am thinking that if I ever get any movement back, I am likely to need some facial retraining or NMR therapy.

Has anyone experienced the therapy and what kind of success/lack of success did you have?

Amy
Amy

4 cm right AN removed restrosigmoid 4/13/06
Partial facial paralysis, SSD and trigeminal numbness for now

Kathleen_Mc

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Re: Anyone had facial retraining or NMR for paralysis?
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2006, 02:38:46 am »
I had facial physio. some years back. It was before I had any "plastic repairs". The major improvement I found from this was the closing of the eye, I was able to really build the muscles involved and able to get it to close tighter than it was. For facial movement I did see some improvement but not a lot in spontaneous movement so I had to really think about it when trying to get a smile etc.
Kathleen
1st AN surgery @ age 23, 16 hours
Loss of 7-10th nerves
mulitple "plastic" repairs to compensate for effects of 7th nerve loss
tumor regrowth, monitored for a few years then surgically removed @ age 38 (of my choice, not medically necessary yet)