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Recovery of facial expressions using functional electrical stimulation after full-face transplantation

2018    Topcu, Cagdas; Uysal, Hilmi; Ozkan, Omer; Ozkan, Ozlenen; Polat, Ovunc; Bedeloglu, Merve; Akgul, Arzu; Doger, Ela Naz; Sever, Refik; Colak, Omer Halil

Background: We assessed the recovery of 2 face transplantation patients with measures of complexity during neuromuscular rehabilitation. Cognitive rehabilitation methods and functional electrical stimulation were used to improve facial emotional expressions of full-face transplantation patients for 5 months. Rehabilitation and analyses were conducted at approximately 3 years after full facial transplantation in the patient group. We report complexity analysis of surface electromyography signals of these two patients in comparison to the results of 10 healthy individuals.