Vinh Traffic Hospital: Treating many patients with peripheral facial nerve VII paralysis

(Baonghean.vn) - Recently, the weather has been complicated, especially on hot days with high temperatures, but the Department of Oriental Medicine and Rehabilitation, Vinh Traffic Hospital has received many patients with diseases.facial nerve VII palsy(facial nerve paralysis).

Patient Nguyen Thi Hai in Le Loi ward - Vinh city was hospitalized with facial paralysis, drooping left eye difficult to open, but after 12 days of treatment at GT - VT Hospital, she was cured.

The cause of facial nerve palsy according to modern medicine is due to blood vessels. The blood vessels that nourish the nerve are constricted, causing ischemia, causing edema and nerve compression in the Fallopian canal. This phenomenon often progresses seriously, especially in cold, windy or nighttime seasons. Up to more than 80% of cases of facial nerve palsy are due to cold.

Patients are massaged by machine

However, in the summer, hot weather causes many patients (mainly the elderly) to get sick due to spending too much time in air-conditioned rooms. The cold temperature causes the blood vessels to constrict, leading to lack of nutrition and causing the VII cranial nerve to react, causing symptoms of swelling or compression...

Acupuncturist, treatment of facial nerve palsy number VII.

When coming for treatment, patients will be treated with massage, infrared therapy, acupuncture, etc. by doctors and nurses, and the treatment period lasts from 5 to 12 days.

Acupuncture for patients at the Department of Oriental Medicine and Rehabilitation.

One of the factors that helps the Department of Oriental Medicine for Rehabilitation, Vinh GT-VT Hospital, attract more and more people to come for examination and treatment is the department that combines traditional medicine and modern medicine, especially non-drug treatment methods (electroacupuncture, manual massage, machine massage, infrared, spinal traction...) and medication (hydroacupuncture, herbal medicine).

Doctor Tran Ngoc Huyen - Head of Oriental Medicine Department, rehabilitation treatment for patients

With the effective support of modern medical equipment and always applying new treatment methods, the medical staff of the department has successfully treated acute and chronic diseases such as: musculoskeletal, disc herniation, neurological, physical weakness, stroke recovery... From the beginning of 2016 until now, the Department has achieved a total of 7,626 treatment days and performed 38,373 procedures for patients.

Hoang Vinh