Facial expression and laterality
Assessment, Evaluation and Rehabilitation

This three-day course elucidates the function of the most important basic emotions and left/right facial recognition out of our daily life.

• Consequences of a dysfunction will be obvious in examples and elucidated in external evidence.
• Different test procedures will be introduced and practiced.
• Systematic facial emotions- and laterality training will be presented by the EMORECO program, as well as the face-mirroring software
• Techniques and treatment strategies will be explained and practiced.
• Patient target groups are:
  • Chronic pain patients
  • Orofacial dysfunctions after facial trauma
  • Temporomandibular facial pain
  • Support of (postoperative) (skeletal) facial asymmetry
  • Neurological patients, e.g. Facial paresis, Parkinson's disease 
  • Speech and swallowing dysfunctions
  • Alexithymia (Problems in recognition of words and emotions)
  • Kinesophobia and Dismorphobia (Perception disorder of the own body)

Target group: Physio-, Occupational Therapists/ Speech- and Language Therapists und Psychologists

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