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Mimic rehabilitation for Sveta was a success!

AiF. Dobroe Serdce

Charitable foundation · Moscow

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You helped to pay for a course of classes with a rehabilitator for Sveta Okhapkina.

The girl was born with an immobile face. Facial nerve reconstruction surgery was the only way to restore Sveta's facial expressions. A muscle and nerve from the child's thigh were grafted into her right cheek. After that Sveta was given a course of rehabilitation: she has to learn to raise her eyebrows, smile and blink. All this will allow the face to become alive and mobile. Thanks to you Sveta has passed the next stage of recovery.

"The rehabilitator worked well with Sveta through the whole program. My daughter has seen improvement: her lips have become symmetrical, her eyes are completely closed during sleep, and her vision has improved. I would like to thank from the bottom of my heart every person who helped my daughter. Thank you for your kind hearts! Svetochka is the ninth child in our family, and the help provided is very significant for us," says mom Victoria.

To keep the momentum going and improve her results, Sveta does facial motor gymnastics every day. She also says a lot of cursive words to make her speech and facial expressions even better. Thank you so much for your help to the Ohapkins family!

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Sveta has congenital facial paralysis. The girl needs rehabilitation to restore mobility to her face

Nine-year-old Svetlana has congenital facial paralysis. Doctors noticed that the right side of the girl's face looked petrified in the delivery room when the newborn cried out for the first time. At first they tried to restore facial expression with massage and physiotherapy, but the problem turned out to be much more serious.

When Vika looked at her sleeping daughter, there was no asymmetry in her face. But as soon as Sveta cried, her face twisted. Over time, the right cheek began to sag and thin, as the muscles in it atrophied.

The girl was operated on in Moscow. After the reconstruction of the facial nerve, the right side of her face stopped being a "stone" mask. Only the new muscle implanted in her cheek needs training.

Now Sveta begins every morning with mimic exercises. Sveta's right cheek is already filled and looks little different from the left. But the work on the mobility of the face to continue: learn to raise the right eyebrow, blink, smile.

Let's help Sveta to do all these things with ease and pay for another important rehabilitation course!