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Bionic blink improves real-time eye closure in unilateral facial paralysis.
Journal of Neural Engineering 2024 March 21
Facial paralysis is the inability to move facial muscles thereby impairing the ability to blink and make facial expressions. Depending on the localization of the nerve malfunction it is subcategorised into central or peripheral and is usually unilateral. This leads to health deficits stemming from corneal dryness and social ostracization. Electrical stimulation shows promise as a method through which to restore the blink function and as a result improve eye health. However, it is unknown whether a real-time, closed-loop, neurostimulating device can be used as assistance to this pathological condition. We developed NEURO-BLINK, a wearable robotic system, that can detect the volitional healthy contralateral blink through electromyography and electrically stimulate the impaired subcutaneous facial nerve and orbicularis oculi muscle to compensate for lost blink function. Alongside the system, we developed a method to evaluate optimal electrode placement through the relationship between blink amplitude and injected charge. Ten patients with unilateral facial palsy were enrolled in the NEURO-BLINK study, with 8 completing testing under two conditions. 1) where the stimulation was cued with an auditory signal (i.e. open-loop) and 2) synchronized with the natural blink (i.e. closed-loop). In both scenarios, overall eye closure (distance between eyelids) and cornea coverage measured with high FPS video were found to significantly improve when measured in real-time, while no significant clinical changes were found immediately after use. This work takes steps towards the development of a portable medical device for blink restoration and facial stimulation which has the potential to improve long-term ocular health.
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