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Neuromuscular retraining refers to the work speech-language pathologists do with patients where they utilize emotional input to access better movement patterns. This is to get the emotional innervation (stimulation) of the movement as well as the voluntary innervation of the movement. Sometimes when people with facial palsy concentrate on trying to make a movement it can end up awkward and forced so the more natural and spontaneous they can make movement practice, the better it will be. Because each patient presents a different functional profile, there are no generic lists of exercises. Treatment is based on individual function, and as a result, each treatment program is different.  Neuromuscular retraining is a problem solving approach to treatment using selective motor training to facilitate symmetrical movement and control undesired gross motor activity..