{"id":12969,"date":"2014-02-04T12:11:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T19:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miridiatech.com\/news\/?p=12969"},"modified":"2018-12-10T03:39:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T10:39:25","slug":"bells-palsy-part-3-bonus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.miridiatech.com\/news\/2014\/02\/bells-palsy-part-3-bonus\/","title":{"rendered":"Bell’s Palsy – Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve talked about how to educate your patients about Bell’s Palsy<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>. Now, if you’ve educated everyone well, your patients and their friends should know when to call you.<\/p>\n

Next, we talked about how to treat a Bell’s Palsy patient<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> to get excellent results.<\/p>\n

When I finished up the last blog, I felt like something was missing. It’s been bothering me ever since.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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How many times have we done an awesome job treating a patient, and then we never see or hear from them again?<\/p>\n

Somehow, this Bell’s Palsy patient fell through the cracks. The fact that “I never saw her again” tells me that I failed to teach her something important.<\/p>\n

Bell’s Palsy is preventable.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Since writing this Bell’s Palsy series, I’ve received emails and talked to a number of people who have had recurring bouts of Bell’s Palsy<\/span>. From a Western perspective, recurring Bell’s Palsy is just the luck of the draw. Some get it and some don’t. If you get it, you’re one of the unlucky<\/em> ones.<\/p>\n

From a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) perspective\u2013there are preventative lifestyle choices the patient can make to avoid the “odds” of getting Bell’s Palsy.<\/p>\n

In Bell’s Palsy–Part 1<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> we talked about the nature of INTERNAL wind<\/strong><\/span> and how it manifests in the body according to TCM.<\/p>\n

I failed to mention how EXTERNAL wind<\/strong><\/span> can also attack<\/em> the body. According to TCM, external wind is either natural or artificial. Natural wind is easy to understand. If you can see the trees and bushes moving, there is wind. Artificial “wind” is a little different. This wind comes from cold\/hot air generated from an air conditioning or heating vent, riding in a vehicle with the window open, and even riding on a motorcycle or in the back of a pick-up truck without proper covering.<\/p>\n

The latter type of “wind” enters externally through the pores of the skin causing similar imbalances as internal wind. Here’s the difference.<\/p>\n

Internal wind<\/strong> is generated within and manifests internally first–seizures, convulsions, stroke, etc.<\/p>\n

External wind<\/strong> enters through the pores of the skin and starts out more on a superficial level. When someone gets a cold or the flu–we call this an external attack of Wind\/Cold or Wind\/Heat. This type of wind enters the body through open orifices such as the mouth, nose, eyes, etc. It can also enter through any exposed area of skin and seems to be most susceptible near the neck, upper back and shoulders. The Chinese figured out early on that airborne illness can be transferred from person to person through the air via external “wind.”<\/p>\n

Wind from Bell’s Palsy can be either internal or external in nature. The two main<\/strong> TCM diagnoses for Bell’s Palsy are:<\/p>\n