Kinesitherapy for idiopathic facial palsy: A protocol of systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Idiopathic facial nerve palsy (Bells palsy) is the most common acute mono-neuropathy which lack of effective treatments. Kinesitherapy as an alternative therapeutic approach was widely used in clinical. But the effects on Bells palsy outcome are still debated.

Methods

The aim of this study is to systematically review the therapeutic efficacy of kinesitherapy for Bells palsy. Database including PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, Chinese Biomedical database (CBM), Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Chinese Science and Technology Periodical database (VIP) and WangFang database will be searched to collect randomized controlled trails (RCTs) on kinesitherapy for Bells palsy from inception to Nov 2020. The therapeutic effects based on recovery rate, House-

SUBMITTER: Zhang Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7769292 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature