Face value

Author: Penny Gravill
Magazine issue: Summer 07
Page numbers: 20-21
Date: 28 May 2007
URL: http://www.speechmag.com/content/files/SLTiPSum07Gravill.pdf

Facial nerve palsy is devastating both physically and psychologically and rehabilitation is long-term, placing many demands on therapists as well as clients. Penny Gravill discusses trophic electrical stimulation and the diagnostic and treatment tool surface electromyography (sEMG). She offers both on the NHS and more recently at a Satellite Centre for an independent provider, The Lindens Clinic.