Incidence & Prevalence
Bell’s palsy is a condition when one side of the face becomes paralysis for unknown reasons (Winland-Brown & Keller, 2015). It occurs suddenly in otherwise healthy people. It affects sexes equally with the median age being 40 (Ferri, 2018). The main people being affected are people less than 70 years old and pregnant woman usually in the third trimester or first week postpartum (Ferri, 2018). It also can affect more people with diabetes or has had an upper respiratory infection or flu affecting 40,000 Americans each year (National Institute of Health [NIH], 2017).
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