Table 1.

Cases of Bell’s palsy responding positively to chiropractic spinal manipulation.

Author	Year	Patient age	Sex	Symptoms other than facial paresis*	Symptom duration (months)	Region of spinal manipulation**
Alcantara	2003	49	F	Phonophobia, TMJ and neck pain	NR	Upper cervical/occipital
Cotton	2011	47	F	Facial paresthesia, sinus pressure, neck tension	60	Upper cervical, cervical, thoracic
Current case	2022	52	F	Neck and facial pain, facial paresthesia	36	Upper cervical, thoracic
Frach	1992	18	F	Ageusia, TMJ and neck pain	0	NR
Frach	1992	37	M	Retroauricular and neck pain, headaches, sensitivity to cold	0	NR
Kessinger	1999	39	M	Facial numbness, neck, occipital, and jaw pain	0	Upper cervical
Kessinger	1999	16	F	Retroauricular, jaw, zygomatic and facial pain	0	Upper cervical
Leuke	1988	40	F	Photophobia, sinus, and neck pain	NR	Cervical
Ng	2014	46	F	Neck, periorbital, and perioral pain	24	Upper cervical/occipital
Nguyen	2013	53	M	Occipital/cervical pain	24	Upper cervical
Shrode	1993	15	M	NR	0	Cervical
Shrode	1993	17	M	Facial paresthesia	0	Cervical
Rubis	2013	40	M	Burning eye sensation	0	Upper cervical

F – female; M – male; NR – not reported; TMJ – temporomandibular joint.
^*All patients had facial paresis as a symptom;
^**”upper cervical” denotes spinal manipulation at C1 or C2 while “cervical”
implies that other cervical spine segments were targeted.