EFFECTIVENESS OF KABAT’S THERAPY IN THE MANAGEMENT OF BELL’S PALSY: A RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL
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A human’s face is a very integral part of his identity and uniqueness. Facial expressions play a crucial role in expressing emotions and in social interactions, thus any defect in facial muscle control, besides physical disability creates social and psychological distress.1 Bell's palsy is an acute-onset peripheral facial neuropathy and is one of the most frequent causes of lower motor neuron facial paralysis. Bell's palsy is named after Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842) who was first to present the anatomical basis.2 The first case report of idiopathic facial paralysis is believed to have been published by an 18th-century medicine professor, Nicolaus Friedrich, in Wurzburg. Later, Charles Bell studied facial nerve function in animals. He encountered several unilateral facial nerve paralysis cases during his surgical practice in London. His most well-known and widely cited case of facial palsy was posted in 1828, in which he presented a matter of a man hit by a bull and the resulting injury caused perpetual facial nerve paralysis.3
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