Iram Ahmad: Inside your middle ear is the nerve that moves the muscles of your face. Narrator: Aka the facial nerve. And if it becomes inflamed or injured, say, from a nasty ear infection ...

Suzy Spence was diagnosed with a tumour in her salivary gland and the surgery could have caused facial paralysis.

Treatment of facial nerve weakness or paralysis caused by Bell's palsy, Ramsay-Hunt syndrome, facial nerve tumors, cancer treatment, ear disease, acoustic neuromas, facial trauma, temporal bone trauma ...

We know that auricular muscles are controlled by the facial nerve. But in most people, the neural pathway governing ear wiggling is not under conscious control, making the action impossible.

Ear acupuncture has been proven to activate the VN. In He, et al.’s research, 8 they found that auricular acupuncture ...

According to experts, since facial nerve tumours are slow-growing ... and she was operated on near her ear and hearing structures to reach the tumour. Finally, the affected area was reconstructed.

Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC, in collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, used an innovative imaging tool to examine the mouse inner ear and made a ...

A very different kind of reconstruction is happening at Edinburgh’s Western General Hospital, where consultant urological surgeon Voula Granitsiotis attempts a highly technical operation which will ...

Citation: Nerve fibers in the inner ear adjust sound levels and help compensate for hearing loss in mice, study finds (2025, February 25) retrieved 20 March 2025 from https://medicalxpress.com ...

Most cases of HFS do not have an obvious cause and are referred to as “idiopathic”. However, HFS is often attributable to an irritation or a compression of the facial nerve by a blood vessel as it ...