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Bell's Palsy
Sir Charles Bell first described this malady in the early 1900's. The medical definitions are as follows: acute form of cranial mononeuropathy VII and is the most common form of this type of nerve damage (peripheral neuropathy). The disorder is a mononeuropathy (involvement of a single nerve) that damages the 7th cranial (facial) nerve, the nerve that controls movement of the muscles of the face. Etiology or "c ....
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.... actual incidence is likely to be much higher (around 1 out of 500 to 1,000). The disorder will effect 40,000 men and women a year, usually between the ages of 20 and 35. Of those diagnosed, twenty percent will have reoccurrence of the disease. It can strike almost anyone at any age; however, it disproportionally attacks pregnant women and people who have diabetes, influenza, a cold, or some other upper respiratory ailment. It also seems to have a higher incidence in regions where the c ....
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