Acupuncture has been increasingly effective in treating Bell’s Palsy.

Bell’s palsy is an acute, ipsilateral facial nerve paralysis with unknown etiology, which can result in weakness of the muscles of facial expression. The clinical features of Bell’s palsy may include sudden onset, unilateral, weakness of the facial nerve, auricular pain, and headaches. Moreover, retroauricular pain may lead to impaired tolerance of noise and ipsilateral disturbance of taste. Bell’s palsy is the most common dysfunction affecting the facial nerves; it affects 11–40 persons per 100,000 population each year and 1 in 60 suffers a lifetime of risk. More than 60,000 persons were affected by this disease each year in the United States alone.

At the Acupuncture and Physical Therapy center Dr. Chernly has been very successful in treating many patients with Bell’s Palsy. Depending on severity of the case patients have felt complete relief within 10 visits.