Make a referral
Fax to 416.697.0730 or email to referrals@vestibularhealth.ca
Your patient can contact us directly to schedule an appointment.
Toronto Facial Palsy Clinic is a division of Vestibular Health
Facial palsy rehabilitation helps your patients with facial nerve dysfunction. We complete a thorough 90 minute assessment to understand your patients goals and priorities. We provide education on nerve injuries, and how muscles of the face work and recover. Facial palsy tends to progress through flaccid to paretic to synkinetic stages. We can help with each stage of recovery.
Our comprehensive assessment includes assessing resting symmetry, voluntary movements, and synkinesis. We do intraoral exams to assess tone, and offer treatments which include massage, stretching, taping, movement retraining, and teaching patients how to delink synkinetic movements. In patients that also have concurrent dizziness, vertigo, imbalance and other vestibular symptoms, as seen in patients with Ramsay Hunt syndrome or vestibular schwannoma/acoustic neuroma, we can support the recovery of the vestibular system.
We will communicate with you regarding our assessment findings, treatment plan, and any concerns that may require further tests or referral to other specialists.
Our physiotherapists are experienced in working collaboratively with physicians, mental health professionals, and allied health clinicians.
Conditions that benefit most:
Bell’s palsy
Ramsay Hunt syndrome
Facial nerve injury/trauma
Facial paresis or synkinesis due to vestibular schwannoma/acoustic neuroma
Facial nerve schwannoma
Facial reanimation surgery
Functional neurological symptoms affecting facial muscles
Synkinesis
Other causes of facial nerve palsy such as Lyme disease, third trimester pregnancy, iatrogenic, congenital palsy, parotid tumors, palsy post head and neck surgery or radiation