Michal Ansky continues to use her big platform on Instagram to raise awareness of Bell's palsy, which she suffered several years ago while boarding a flight back to Israel from a vacation abroad.
On Monday, she posted a short video of herself undergoing treatment for her facial muscles, to which she attached a text in which she described to her hundreds of thousands of followers the arduous and tedious procedure in the fight against paralysis.
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"Dedicated physical therapy for facial muscles is the only non-invasive treatment that really relieves the pain and symptoms of synkinesis (where Ansky suffered paralysis; XIV). Ayelet stretches the ring orbicularis muscle around my eye, which in my case tends to contract. I have to stretch it out every night myself, at the end of the day, and it's a Sisyphean struggle, not with the songs but with the brain."
She then turned to patients in a situation similar to hers and asked to encourage them. "If you, or someone you know, has been paralyzed and still suffers from symptoms or asymmetry, it's important to know that there is something to be done today and there are ways to treat," Ansky wrote, referring to a Google search on the subject.
Just earlier last month, Ansky told her followers about another treatment she was undergoing. "Dr. Shkedi injects me with medical Botox into the platysma muscle in my neck so I can smile. I have to inject 30 units of Botox into the platysma muscle on the right side of my neck every three months. Excessive cramping on one side of the neck is one of the most common symptoms of synkinesis, a condition in which the muscles work on one side of the face excessively," she explained.
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