Management of Physiotherapy in Cases of Bell's Palsy During Pregnancy

Abstract

Bell's Palsy is an acute neurological disease where the first symptom can be pain around
the mastoid and cause hemiparesis or facial paralysis. (Marotta et al., 2020). Bell's Palsy
is characterized by a spontaneous series that occurs in less than 72 hours on one side of
the face (Reich, 2017). Bell's Palsy is defined as one-sided facial nerve palsy with an
unknown cause (Adam, 2019). The provision of electrical stimulation intervention aims to
increase muscle strength, skeletal muscle contraction, improve the vascularization system
and stimulate sensory nerves, while infrared intervention aims to increase metabolic
processes, vasodilation of blood vessels, increase body temperature and activate sweat
glands.