Spasm Labial

Labio-lingual spasm (spasmus linguale labialis), or propulsive deviation of the lower jaw back and down, is a recessive disease of the nervous system. It is also called tongue palsy or 2nd cranial nerve palsy.

Spasm is manifested by weakness of the muscles of the tongue, pharynx and larynx. This leads to some complications. One of them is McGregor-Thom syndrome, which smooths out scars located around the tonsil, hyoid bone and ankle of the leg. Most often, this disease affects people suffering from vascular pathology in the cervical spine. The peculiarity of the spasm is that after strong swallowing movements there is a reflex difficulty in breathing, and the person begins to choke. To determine spasmodic syndrome, electromyography is performed. This method helps to identify changes in the organ without entering the stomach through an endoscope. Diagnosis of the syndrome takes from