What exactly is a facial muscle spasm?

There are many causes of eye jumping, the most common being the involuntary twitching of the eye muscles that occurs when the eyes are overused and the body is not feeling well. This twitching is often caused by an increase in tension in the nerve fibers that locally innervate the eye muscles. This cause of the “eye jump” is often episodic, once a day or two or three times a day, each time a few times, lasting one second to two seconds. Generally do not need treatment, as long as more attention to rest symptoms can be improved; however, if the eyelid frequently jump, we should beware of facial muscle spasm. Facial muscle spasm part of the patient’s early symptoms is eyelid jumping, this is a kind of pathological eyelid jumping, generally manifested as a continuous jumping, jumping rhythm is relatively large, this is due to intracranial blood vessel compression of the nerves caused by; in this case, only in the finding and elimination of the cause of the cause of the eyelid jumping can be made to stop. Therefore, once the following symptoms occur, you should go to the hospital in time to receive professional treatment. 1.Muscle twitching at the corners of the mouth usually manifests as irregular, rapid, paroxysmal twitching. At the beginning of the disease, the twitching is mild and the duration is short, only a few seconds. As the disease progresses, the twitching time gradually grows to several minutes or longer, but the interval time will be shortened slowly. 2.Inability to speak Tonic convulsions can cause patients to be emotionally stressed, and then unable to speak, the corner of the mouth to the same side of the tilt, the same side of the eye can not be opened, aggravated by emotional excitement, reduced when quiet, and disappeared during sleep. Facial pain The level of facial pain varies from person to person, and a small portion of patients can be accompanied by headache and tinnitus on the same side. 4, facial muscle paralysis A small number of patients in the late stage can appear on the affected side of the mild facial muscle paralysis, a very small number of local patients involved in both sides So what to do with facial muscle spasm? The main cause of facial muscle spasm is that the facial nerve is compressed by abnormal blood vessels in the brainstem. Long-term compression of the facial nerve by blood vessels and friction and extrusion, causing nerve demyelination lesions, resulting in nerve conduction disorders caused by abnormal discharge of the facial nerve, manifested as involuntary twitching of one side of the facial muscles. After finding the cause of the disease, the treatment should of course start from the “responsible blood vessel” that compresses the nerve. Prof. Wang Xuelian uses “Microvascular Decompression”, i.e., under the assistance of microscope, we can find the abnormal position of blood vessels and facial nerve, and place a kind of polymer material (Teflon pad cotton) between them, so as to separate the blood vessels and nerves for the purpose of decompression, which can solve the problem of facial twitching from the root of the disease.