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“At-Home” Photobiomodulation: A New Approach for Bell's Palsy Treatment

OBJECTIVE: This report is the first one to describe the possibility to use “self‐administered” photobiomodulation (PBM) for Bell's palsy (BP) treatment. BACKGROUND: BP is a peripheral disorder of the facial nerve causing sudden paralysis of unilateral facial muscles, and PBM has been successful...

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Autores principales: Fornaini, Carlo, Meng, Zhao, Merigo, Elisabetta, Rocca, Jean-Paul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8455211/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34557318
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5043458
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author Fornaini, Carlo
Meng, Zhao
Merigo, Elisabetta
Rocca, Jean-Paul
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Merigo, Elisabetta
Rocca, Jean-Paul
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description OBJECTIVE: This report is the first one to describe the possibility to use “self‐administered” photobiomodulation (PBM) for Bell's palsy (BP) treatment. BACKGROUND: BP is a peripheral disorder of the facial nerve causing sudden paralysis of unilateral facial muscles, and PBM has been successfully suggested for its treatment without any side effect. This is the first case report where a laser device was successfully used at home by the patient herself to treat BP opening new perspectives on the therapy of this disease. METHODS: This report describes the “at-home PBM” treatment performed on a 15-year-old girl who presented BP consisting of acute pain on the right side of her face, difficulty in biting and dripping saliva from the right side of her lips. The treatment was performed twice a day by cutaneous applications, each of 15 minutes (total fluence 48 J/cm(2)) in an area corresponding to the parotid gland by a device emitting at 808 nm at 250 mW output power. RESULTS: Two weeks after PBM treatment, performed at home twice a day by the patient herself without any kind of pharmacological therapy, the complete disappearing of the disease was noticed with no side effects. CONCLUSION: With the limitations due to a single case report and with the need of further clinical trials to confirm it, “at-home PBM” seems to represent a good and safe approach to the treatment of BP.
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spelling pubmed-84552112021-09-22 “At-Home” Photobiomodulation: A New Approach for Bell's Palsy Treatment Fornaini, Carlo Meng, Zhao Merigo, Elisabetta Rocca, Jean-Paul Case Rep Neurol Med Case Report OBJECTIVE: This report is the first one to describe the possibility to use “self‐administered” photobiomodulation (PBM) for Bell's palsy (BP) treatment. BACKGROUND: BP is a peripheral disorder of the facial nerve causing sudden paralysis of unilateral facial muscles, and PBM has been successfully suggested for its treatment without any side effect. This is the first case report where a laser device was successfully used at home by the patient herself to treat BP opening new perspectives on the therapy of this disease. METHODS: This report describes the “at-home PBM” treatment performed on a 15-year-old girl who presented BP consisting of acute pain on the right side of her face, difficulty in biting and dripping saliva from the right side of her lips. The treatment was performed twice a day by cutaneous applications, each of 15 minutes (total fluence 48 J/cm(2)) in an area corresponding to the parotid gland by a device emitting at 808 nm at 250 mW output power. RESULTS: Two weeks after PBM treatment, performed at home twice a day by the patient herself without any kind of pharmacological therapy, the complete disappearing of the disease was noticed with no side effects. CONCLUSION: With the limitations due to a single case report and with the need of further clinical trials to confirm it, “at-home PBM” seems to represent a good and safe approach to the treatment of BP. Hindawi 2021-09-13 /pmc/articles/PMC8455211/ /pubmed/34557318 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5043458 Text en Copyright © 2021 Carlo Fornaini et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Meng, Zhao
Merigo, Elisabetta
Rocca, Jean-Paul
“At-Home” Photobiomodulation: A New Approach for Bell's Palsy Treatment
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8455211/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34557318
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5043458
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