Facial Palsy Treatment (NMES)

Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stroke Rehabilitation; Facial Palsy

Treatments: Other: Neuro muscular electrical stimulation; Other: Beckmann's oral motor exercises

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT06976814

MRC-01-20-1167

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Primary objective of the study is to investigate the most effective treatment modalities available to speech language pathologist as well as movement difference by comparing them.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with 1st stroke
• Hemorrhagic stroke
• Ischemic stroke
• Right hemispheric stroke
• Left hemispheric stroke
• Normal cognitive skills (Based on Montreal cognitive assessment MOCA)
• Normal Language (Not Aphasic)
• Normal swallowing

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with Bell's palsy
• Facial trauma
• Post otitis media surgeries
• Neoplasm, malignant or tumor cell invasion of facial nerve
• Cognitive impairment
• Patients with aphasia
• Patients on defibrillator cardiac devices
• Patients with pacemakers or any other type of cardiac devices
• Multiple strokes

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

---

60 participants in 3 patient groups

Neuro muscular electrical stimulation arm

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Neuro muscular electrical stimulation

Beckmann Oral Motor Exercise Arm

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Beckmann's oral motor exercises

Neuro Muscular Electrical Stimulation Arm + Beckmann Oral Motor Exercise Arm

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Beckmann's oral motor exercises

Other: Neuro muscular electrical stimulation