Rodríguez BMC, Rodríguez PEM, Rodríguez BDY, Hernández GY

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ABSTRACT

Background: magnet therapy is a part of bioenergetic therapies which are used at present for being non-invasive treatments. Their contraindications are well-defined. Case presentation: a forty-seven year old patient showing a slight deviation of lip commissure to the left side, difficulty to close the right eye and stress of the face in one side and weakness of the facial muscles as main symptoms and signs in the clinical exam. The diagnosis of peripheric facial palsy of Bell was diagnosed from the clinical data. He was treated with magnetic therapy applied in acupunctural points as the only method of treatment and in the period of 15 days he recovered the tone of the facial muscles and the volunteer movements and reflexes of the affected hemiarcade. Conclusions: though no experimental studies have been carried out to evaluate the effectivity of the magnet therapy as alternative treatment, the use of this technique allowed the recovery of the motor function in a patient with peripheral neural damage.

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