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Bells Palsy Manual
Exercises
Exercise each side of the face separately
Exercise
1
Lying down with small mirror in hand
Raise the eyebrow with finger – look in the mirror. There shouldn’t be
any activity under the eye , as only your finger is working. Relax the
eye. Now slowly raise the eyebrow using the forehead muscles.
Concentrate on the forehead muscles of the side you are exercising and
remove the finger support.
Try to gently retain eyebrow position.
This exercise is to encourage forehead movement without mass movement of
the cheek. It will become easier with electrical work.
Exercise
2
Raise corner of mouth into a smile position. Keep the cheek relaxed.
Make the movement using a cotton bud, doing all the work with the cotton
bud so that the muscles under the eye remain relaxed. Ignore the other
side of your face. Think about the small muscles in your cheek, remove
the bud and try to hold the smile.
This will eventually give you a nice smile without eye movement, whilst
you are lying down !
Keep repeating this, in time you will be able to smile sitting up.
Lying down without the mirror
Place fingers gently onto the forehead. Raise your eyes to look behind
you.
Feel the wrinkles on your forehead, both sides working together. Soon
you will feel more wrinkles.
After
2 months
Try these procedures sitting in front of a mirror as opposed to lying
down.
Do not work too hard though, otherwise you will get unwanted activity
under opposite eye.
Repeat 5 times per exercise twice a day
Hold each position up to 5 seconds
It is the quality of the movement which is important.
DO
NOT RUSH.
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