Chiropractic Care of a Patient With Vertebral Subluxation and Bell’s Palsy

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Chiropractic Care of a Patient With Vertebral Subluxation and Bell’s Palsy
Joel Alcantara, DC, Gregory Plaugher, DC, Darwin L. Van Wyngarden, DC
J Manipulative Physiol Ther 2003 (May); 26 (4): 253


OBJECTIVE: To describe the chiropractic care of a patient medically diagnosed with Bell’s palsy and discuss issues clinically relevant to this disorder, such as its epidemiology, etiology, diagnosis, care, and prognosis.

CLINICAL FEATURES: A 49-year-old woman with a medical diagnosis of Bell’s palsy sought chiropractic care. Her symptoms included right facial paralysis, extreme phonophobia, pain in the right temporomandibular joint (TMJ), and neck pain. Signs of cervical vertebral and TMJ subluxations included edema, tenderness, asymmetry of motion and posture, and malalignment detected from plain film radiographs.

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