Joel Alcantara, DC, Gregory Plaugher, DC, Darwin L. Van Wyngarden, DC reports that 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. The initial symptomatic response to care was positive, and the patient made continued improvements during the 6 months of care.
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FROM: J Manipulative Physiol Ther 2003 (May); 26 (4): 253
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