Physical Rehabilitation of Paralysed Facial Muscles: Functional and Morphological Correlates

• Main Author: Angelov, Doychin N. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology, 210
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Biomedicine.

Using a combined morpho-functional approach the author found that polyinnervation of the neuro-muscular juction (NMJ) is the critical factor for recovery of function after transection and suture of the facial nerve. Since polyinnervation is activity-dependent and can be manipulated, the author tried...

Table of Contents:

• Factors limiting motor recovery after peripheral nerve injury
• Attempts to improve axonal pathfinding and quality of target reinnervation
• Efforts to reduce collateral axonal branching at the lesion site
• Efforts to reduce intramuscular axonal sprouting in denervated muscles
• Discussion
• Significance axonal branching at the lesion site
• Unsuccessful ways to reduce intramuscular axonal sprouting in denerved muscles
• Successful ways to reduce intramuscular axonal sprouting in paralysed muscles
• Unsuccessful manual stimulation of paralysed forearm muscles after MMA
• Conclusions
• Subject index.