Bibliographic citations
Cruz, R., (2015). Características de los grados de afectación del nervio facial y la discapacidad facial en pacientes con parálisis facial periférica de un año de evolución. Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurológicas. Marzo-junio 2015 [Tesis, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/4504
Cruz, R., Características de los grados de afectación del nervio facial y la discapacidad facial en pacientes con parálisis facial periférica de un año de evolución. Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurológicas. Marzo-junio 2015 [Tesis]. PE: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/4504
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title = "Características de los grados de afectación del nervio facial y la discapacidad facial en pacientes con parálisis facial periférica de un año de evolución. Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurológicas. Marzo-junio 2015",
author = "Cruz Ausejo, Ruth Liliana",
publisher = "Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos",
year = "2015"
}
--- OBJECTIVES: To determine the characteristics of the degrees of affection of the facial nerve and the relation with disability in patients with facial paralysis with 1 year of evolution. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Observational, correlational, and crosssectional study. A population of patients diagnosed with peripheral facial paralysis was studied during 2014. A first sample of 56 patients was chose through clinical records. Inclusion criteria were: patients with Axonotmesis type injury (Seddon’s classification), older than 18 years, without history of peripheral facial paralysis, not mental capacity disorder or having received treatment for botulinum toxin. 43 of them were evaluated – 21 women and 22 men – using the Facial Nerve Grading System 2.0 (FNGS2.0) and the Facial Disability Index. Characteristics according to sex and age were subsequently described and the relation between both evaluation measures was determined using the Pearson correlation coefficient. RESULTS: A strong correlation between the degrees of affection of facial nerve and Facial Disability Index for the physical subscale was found, (r= -0.85, p< 0,001) for the degrees of affection of the facial nerve and the Facial Disability Index for social subscale (r= -0.74, p<0,001). The participants older than 60 years reflected higher scores in the degrees of affection and a higher facial disability. In addition, there were no differences between degrees of affection in men and women. CONCLUSIONS: The level of nerve affection is associated with facial disability. And this association is higher with the physic disability dimension. Including these tools in physiotherapeutic evaluation would make possible to acknowledge physical and social changes that lead to disability as a result of facial nerve injury. KEY WORDS: Peripheral Facial Paralysis, Facial Disability Index, Facial Nerve Grading System 2.0.
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