The therapist stuck her fingers in my mouth today. She used them along with her thumb on my cheek to pull my cheek muscles. Weird to feel a muscle in your face tugged on.
My sinus fractures healed enough that they could stand the stress of this therapeutic massage. And the therapist has been threatening me with it since I first met her. Anyhow she had me do some face exercises after the cheek massage.
My therapy assignment is to use a mirror for the face exercises. The mirror is to see and help learn how to make facial expressions that are equal proportions on each side of the face. The right side of my mouth and chin have some palsy which may or may not go away. In the meantime I exercise by looking at my face in a mirror. Reps are tough.
To my eye there isn't much visible swelling in my face but everyone who sees me remarks how it's decreased since last they saw me. The doctors have been telling me swelling inside body spaces, like skull and sinuses, takes quite a long time to go down and is sometimes treated with steroid injections. The swelling continues to affect nerve and muscle function until it is gone and the tissue recovers from any damage.
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