Facial muscle spasm science and treatment

  Many inaccurate advertisements and false propaganda are all over the place, which makes many patients believe in those secret prescriptions, which not only wastes a lot of time and money, but also misses the best time for treatment, and even leaves serious sequelae. Dr. Ren Lijie gave an example of a patient’s difficult medical journey: “There was once a bus conductor in Shenzhen City, at the beginning of the disease, listening to others believe that the disease for psychological reasons, and moved around a number of hospitals to seek treatment, in the face and acupuncture, medicine, but the symptoms still did not improve, desperate she almost gave up the confidence of treatment, until 2006, in Dr. Ren Lijie here for In 2006, she received medication from Dr. Ren Lijie and was able to get rid of the disease. In fact, what she suffered from was the most common facial spasm, and it was because of the lack of proper disease awareness that she took a wrong turn in treatment.  There are various clinical treatments for facial spasm, mainly including medication, botulinum toxin injection, and microvascular decompression, etc. Oral medication commonly used includes carbamazepine, baclofen and other drugs, which are suitable for patients who cannot receive other treatments in the early stage of the disease or poor systemic condition; while microvascular decompression is a treatment method for the cause of the disease, the disadvantage of which is that it requires neurosurgery to achieve treatment, but also has the risk of recurrence, and the surgical results depend on the surgical experience of the surgeon.  Our department specializes in the treatment of botulinum toxin application in neurology, which is carried out specifically by the botulinum toxin treatment team. Due to the unique pharmacological effect of botulinum toxin, local injection of botulinum toxin can block nerve conduction through the toxic effect of the drug on nerves, thus stopping the spastic muscles from twitching. over the past 10 years, the team mainly led by Dr. Ren has treated many patients with facial muscle spasms with botulinum toxin, and once a young patient was overwhelmed by the disease and felt unable to have normal interpersonal interactions, which affected her Dr. Ren Lijie performed botulinum toxin treatment combined with psychotherapy to effectively relieve the patient’s symptoms and to restore the patient’s confidence and get rid of the disease. Botulinum toxin treatment for facial spasms usually works in 3 to 7 days and lasts for 3 months to 6 months, and the injection can be repeated for recurrence of symptoms and still be effective.  In addition, there are some other applications of toxin, Meige syndrome, hyperhidrosis of the hands and feet, post-stroke limb spasm, spastic slant neck and medical cosmetic wrinkle removal are its indications, the drug is safe and easy to use, of course, due to the biological nature of the drug, related diseases must be treated in a large hospital for specialist treatment.