How to treat facial spasms

There are many causes of facial spasms and many treatments, but sometimes the results are not satisfactory, which will seriously affect the appearance and cause great psychological harm to the patient. There are many treatment methods, such as drug therapy, botulinum toxin injection therapy, etc. If facial spasms are not treated well, vascular decompression can also be used for treatment. Let us learn about how facial spasms should be treated. Let’s take a look at this aspect.

How to treat facial spasms

Facial muscle spasms are usually treated with medications and botulinum toxin injections in the short term but have poor long-term effects. Microvascular decompression is an effective treatment for facial muscle spasms. All patients treated at Donglei Neurosurgery have shown very good results in postoperative follow-up, with very few recurrences. The main surgical principle of cerebral vascular decompression is to reduce and change the pressure of cerebral blood vessels on nerves in the brainstem area through a series of loosening and decompression treatments, thereby fundamentally solving the problem of muscle spasms.

Vascular decompression requires general anesthesia and hospital stay is about one week. If facial muscle spasms are diagnosed to be caused by vascular reasons, which seriously affect the patient's life and work and are ineffective for botulinum toxin injections, microvascular decompression can be used for treatment to solve the problem at one time. Can hemifacial spasm be treated? Currently, there is almost no recurrence among patients with hemifacial spasm treated with microvascular decompression at BDG Donglei Neurology Department.

If the following symptoms occur, it means you are suffering from hemifacial spasm. Eyelid twitching: At the beginning of the disease, the symptoms of hemifacial spasm first manifest as involuntary twitching of one eyelid. Patients generally do not take it seriously. Twitching at the corners of the mouth: The disease gradually and slowly develops, affecting the facial muscles on the same side, and twitching at the corners of the mouth begins to occur.

The twitching is mild at first, then it will last for several minutes or longer, the rest time will gradually shorten, and the twitching will gradually become more frequent. At this time, other people can easily see the abnormality. In most patients, the tics stop after they fall asleep. Mental stress: Frequent tics often make patients feel upset and unable to study or work, which seriously affects their physical and mental health.