Development of an open-source and free facial rehabilitation website for severe bell's palsy: a within-subject study on user experience and patient's compliance with the MEPP-website.

MEPP- website during facial rehabilitation improved user experience. Better user experience likely optimizes how patients perform and facilitate their exercises. Factors affecting compliance with facial rehabilitation remain to be addressed.Implications for rehabilitationRecent data suggests that mirror effect therapy combined with drug therapy supports the recovery of severe Bell's Palsy.The specialized Mirror Effect Plus Protocol (MEPP)- website is a clinical computer-based tool developed to promote patients' motor learning and diminish cognitive load during mirror therapy.The MEPP-website increase clinicians' accessibility to a specialized facial rehabilitation tool for mirror therapy.Clinicians using the MEPP-website can also objectively and easily measure compliance to facial therapy with the MEPP-website.