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Scottish Bell's Palsy Study

Welcome

How to Refer a Patient

What is Bell’s Palsy?

What is the S B P S?

Who’s Who

The Trial Sites

The Patient’s Experience

Graeme’s Story

House-Brackmann Scale

The Questionnaires

Documentation

Legal Stuff

Links to other web sites

Bell’s Palsy Association


The BPA is “the only UK registered charity solely established to deal in providing help and information to sufferers of this condition. The main aim of the association is to provide information to the sufferer and their families”. The site includes its own links to sites elsewhere and a photo gallery of famous sufferers.

Links to other web sites
Text Box: All these sites have in common that they are primarily concerned with Bell’s Palsy, causes and treatments, and with the patient’s experience. Almost all of them offer links to other sites including many giving personal accounts of onset, duration and treatment.

The Bell’s Palsy Network


This website provides “your on-line source for Bell's Palsy information”.

Bell’s Palsy Information Site


A detailed and quite technical resource centre. Lots of discussion of anatomical considerations (including cutaway drawings) and possible treatments. If you become a member (easy to do and it doesn’t cost anything) you will have access to topic-related discussion groups.

The National Centers
for Facial Paralysis


This is a USA corporation primarily dedicated to providing medical treatment to individuals suffering from a variety of facial paralyses. It provides some useful links and a glossary of terms.

Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)


The home page of the group that approved the medicines used in the study. Their “Current Issues” page addresses precisely that, and makes for gripping reading.

ramsayHunt.org


This site describes the “painful and dramatic” onset of Ramsay Hunt Syndrome and associated conditions including Bell’s Palsy.

The NHS Health Technology Assessment programme


The home page of the institution that has funded the study. (If you go to “Projects” and search on ‘palsy’, you’ll find us.)

netdoctor.co.uk


There are in the UK alone probably hundreds of official or official-sounding sites dealing with medical matters. This one has an encyclopaedia of medicines so that you can discover a bit more about the study treatments prednisolone and acyclovir, if you are interested.

Tayside Centre for General Practice


Definitely don’t miss this one: T C G P is involved in a lot more activity than the BELLS study.
Text Box: These sites are not specific to the condition, but provide relevant information about things related to it, or to the study.

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke


Another site from the USA. If you click on “Disorders” there is an entry for Bell’s Palsy. The paragraph on treatment (“probably” … “possibly” …) succinctly expresses current uncertainty.

Bell’s Palsy – Wikipedia


From Wikipedia, the free web-based encyclopaedia.