1. The Efficacy of Acupuncture in the Treatment of Bell's Palsy Sequelae
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Cavit Boz, Ahmet Kalaycioglu, Canan Ertemoğlu Öksüz, Ahmet Yildirim, Şahi Nur Kalkışım, Nihat Burak Zihni, Özlem Uzun, and Biruni Üniversitesi
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Adult ,Male ,Adolescent ,Grading Scales ,Facial Paralysis ,Acupuncture Therapy ,Electromyography ,Young Adult ,Statistical significance ,Bell's palsy ,Bell Palsy ,medicine ,Acupuncture ,Humans ,Aged ,Palsy ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Bell's Palsy Sequelae ,lcsh:Other systems of medicine ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,lcsh:RZ201-999 ,medicine.disease ,Facial nerve ,Facial paralysis ,Compound muscle action potential ,Treatment Outcome ,Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine ,Complementary and alternative medicine ,Anesthesia ,Female ,business - Abstract
Objective: This study was planned to evaluate the effectiveness of acupuncture treatment for the treatment Bell's palsy sequelae. Methods: In this study, the forty patients with Bell's palsy sequelae were randomly allocated into either the acupuncture or control group. The clinical outcomes in pre- and post- treatment were assessed using the following assays: the facial nerve compound motor action potential (CMAP), House-Brackmann (HB) and Sunnybrook (SB) grading scales. Agreement analysis was performed between the SB and HB grading scales. Results: There was significant difference between pre- and post- treatment CMAP values of the patients within the acupuncture group (p=0.036). In pre- and post- treatment SB and HB scores, significant differences within two groups were observed. However, the significance level in the improvement rate in the acupuncture group was higher than that of the control group. General agreement between the SB and HB scores of groups was an acceptable value, weighted agreement between the scales was a moderate agreement. Conclusion: In this study, we found that acupuncture treatment is effective in improving Bell's palsy sequelae. Acupuncture can be used as a safe method in the treatment of Bell's palsy sequelae. © 2019, Firat University Scientific Research Projects Management Unit
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- 2019