11/11/2025
You may have heard that if you do not recover quickly from facial palsy or Bell's palsy, your facial muscles will atrophy, or waste away.
We want to clear up this common myth.
Bell's palsy and other peripheral facial palsies (such as Ramsay Hunt Syndrome) only affect the facial nerve, not the facial muscles themselves.
In long-term cases, the muscles may seem smaller due to a lack of tone or tightness from contractures, but they do not suffer atrophy.
So you should not be worried about facial muscles atrophy. Even if your facial palsy happened many years ago, your facial muscles remain healthy and capable of movement.
Our method works on restoring proper muscle tone, showing that improvement is possible even years later.