Efficacy of Telerehabilitation Based Exercises in Patients With Bell's Palsy

Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Bell Palsy

Treatments: Other: Conventional Education Program; Other: Telerehabilitation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05251558

BELLS1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study will be carried out with volunteer patients who are diagnosed with Bell's Palsy and comply with the study criteria.The aim of the study is to compare the home PNF exercise program with video-based telerehabilitation and the conventional training program in terms of outcome measures in patients with Bell's Palsy lesions.

Full description

With the telerehabilitation program, it is aimed that patients can easily adapt to home exercise programs and be followed up remotely. In this way, the most effective treatment of the disease will provide the patient with both motor function gain and psychosocial gain. This study was planned to examine the effectiveness of telerehabilitation in patients with Bell's Palsy.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Male and female patients aged 18 - 65 years
• Being diagnosed with Bell's Palsy by a specialist physician
• Having a lower motor neuron lesion
• Non-traumatic cases
• Not having any other neurological deficits
• Having signed the consent form

Exclusion criteria

• Situations that will prevent assessments or communication with the individual
• Bilateral involvement
• Having an operation for facial palsy
• Having an upper motor neuron lesion
• Neurological problems that would preclude evaluation and/or treatment.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Telerehabilitation (TR)

Experimental group

Description:

Self PNF exercises determined for facial muscles (M. Frontalis, M. Orbicularis Oculi, M. Orbicularis Oris, M. Risorius etc.) will be applied.

Treatment:

Other: Telerehabilitation

Conventional Education Program (CEP)

Active Comparator group

Description:

Education will be given to cases with Bell's Palsy. Some exercises will be suggested in front of the mirror. Patients will be advised to gently massage upwards with their fingertips after applying a warm towel with a towel on the facial muscles.

Treatment:

Other: Conventional Education Program