Facial nerve paralysis describes weakness in the muscles on one or both sides of your face that causes an inability to smile, blink, or control other facial movements. It happens when the facial nerve ...

Your brainstem hosts multiple cranial nerves. The facial nerve is the seventh cranial nerve. It controls your facial movements and expressions. The nerve fibers controlled by your facial nerve also ...

Facial nerve disorders can significantly impact your quality of life, affecting how you speak, eat, drink, and express emotion.A facial nerve disorder results from damage to the nerves controlling ...

Bell’s palsy is the most common form of acute peripheral facial nerve disorder, typically presenting as a rapid onset of unilateral facial weakness or paralysis. Although the precise aetiology often ...

Imagine waking up unable to smile, blink, or raise one eyebrow. Your face feels heavy, lopsided, perhaps even numb. Water dribbles from the corner of your mouth when you drink. This alarming ...

Electromyography (EMG) is a diagnostic test that measures how well the muscles respond to the electrical signals emitted to specialized nerve cells called motor nerves. EMG tests are safe and pose ...

And if this was Bell’s palsy, why wasn’t there improvement after a full year? By Lisa Sanders, M.D. “I don’t want everybody to see my face,” the 64-year-old woman told her mother-in-law over the phone ...

The pain management teams at the LKS Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) and Queen Mary Hospital (QMH ...

Parotid gland abscesses caused unusual facial nerve palsy in two patients, according to a case report published on July 30 in the International Journal of Surgery Case Reports. Only 15 other cases of ...