Abdul Haseeb Khan Niazi, Ansar Latif, Namra Chughtai, Rubab Javed, Tariq Mukhtar Farani.
Risk of Bell’s palsy in the patients with migraine.
Pak J Med Health Sci Jan ;13(4):776-8.

Aim : To assess the relation between the migraine and bell’s palsy . Study Design : Prospective study. Place and Time of Study: Department of Physiotherapy, Department of Neurology. Jinnah Hospital, Lahore. From January - May 2019. Methods: The data was collected from the different hospitals. 90 patients were selected. The patients were asked about the symptoms which covers all the possible happenings with the patient of migraine and they were also assessed about the presence of Bell’s palsy. A questionnaire was used and interviews were conducted. Result :A total of 90 patients were taken 39 were male 51 were female. 72 patients had headache 18 were of strain type cerebral pain in 72 headache patients 58 were of bell's paralysis and 14 were normal only with migraine . In 18 pressure sort cerebral pain patients just 3 were of Bell's paralysis and remaining 15 never had Bell's paralysis. So in the wake of performing Chi-square test, with p value=0.0000 it affirmed that there is relationship between Bell's paralysis and headache. But due to unknown mechanism of migraine and Bell’s palsy this study will recommend further evaluation. Conclusions: In this investigation an immediate relationship between the headache and the Bell's paralysis was surveyed. In any case, there is relationship between the headache and the Bell's paralysis. However, further assessment is required to know the instrument through which the headache turns into the danger factor of Bell's paralysis.

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