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Therefore, therapy effort is directed on improved facial symmetry by reducing facial synkinesis and the elevated muscle tone. There are no established methods to confirm these aims objectively. Therefore the aim of the present study was to verify if high-resolution surface electromyography (HR-sEMG) mapping of the entire face during standardized facial movements is one such sought-after method. Bilateral HR-sEMG facial mapping was performed in 36 patients (81% women; age range: 24\u201370\u00a0years) with a postparalytic facial nerve syndrome. Participants performed a standard set of standardized facial movement tasks before start (T0) and after nine days of training (T9). A linear mixed-effects model was used to evaluate differences between the facial movement tasks in-between the synkinetic side and the contralateral side at T0 and T9. 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