Effect of Mime Therapy and Conventional Therapy on Bell's Palsy Patients

Effect of Mime Therapy and Conventional Therapy on Bell's Palsy Patients". Background: There are many different known physiotherapy treatment used in the management of Bell's palsy, Mime therapy being a relatively novel approach among them. However, there is dearth of evidence about the effectiveness of mime therapy in Bell's palsy patients. Hence, there is a need for this experimental comparative study to find the effectiveness of mime therapy in the management of Bell's palsy. Objective: To compare the effects of mime therapy and conventional therapy in improving with facial function and symmetry of bell's palsy patients. Methodology: Experimental design with a sample size of 30 which is randomly allocated into 2 groups with 15 samples in each groups: experimental group, which received mime therapy and the control group, which received conventional therapy were given 45 minutes / day for 5 sessions in a week for 3 weeks. The outcome measures taken were sunny brook facial grading system for checking the facial symmetry and House Brackmann facial grading system for measuring the severity of paresis. Results: Both group showed a significant improvement of facial symmetry and facial function in Bell's palsy patients. In HBFGS between experimental group and control group shows that average improvement 1.9333 in experimentalgroup and 1.5333 in control group, (U=72.0,P=0.109, P<0.05).In SBFGS between experimental group and control group shows that average improvement in experimental group was 32.5333 and in control group is 25.2667 (T=1.983,P= 0.015, P<0.05).Conclusion: The findings suggested that mime therapy and conventional treatment are equally effective.These results must be confirmed by further studies with larger sample size and longer follow -up.