Facial muscle spasm symptoms and treatment: Facial muscle spasm is a common neurological disorder of the brain, with a high incidence in middle and old age, and is more common in female patients. The disease is due to the compression of the facial nerve at the exit of the brainstem by abnormally located blood vessels, long-term compression, causing nerve demyelination lesions, which leads to nerve conduction disorders, the patient manifests involuntary twitching of one side of the facial muscles. The disease mostly starts from the orbicularis oculi muscle, often manifesting as the symptom of “eyelid jumping”, which is easily ignored, and then involves the whole face, with twitching episodes in bursts, and the twitching is aggravated when the patient is tired and nervous. Facial twitching, not only the image and mood is not beautiful, life and work are also greatly affected, the initial symptoms are relatively light, many patients use medication to treat, after a few years, the symptoms aggravate, when taking more medication, discomfort reactions, this time many patients will look for other methods of treatment. For example, gamma knife, closed needle, etc.. But these methods, is still a cure for the symptoms, not all patients are effective, some patients can temporarily relieve the symptoms, so facial muscle spasm there are ways to cure? The answer is yes, the doctor introduced, in recent years in the clinical often use apparent microvascular decompression to treat facial muscle spasm, this is for the pathogenesis of facial muscle spasm treatment surgery. The procedure is usually done through an opening behind the ear on the affected side, with a small wound. The microscopic instruments are used to find and expose the responsible blood vessels and nerves that cause clinical symptoms, carefully separate them, and then place a special material decompression spacer between them to improve the symptoms of facial twitching, thus achieving the purpose of treatment.