Adjustment of dental occlusion in treatment of chronic cervicobrachial pain and headache
| Autor: | Pentti Kirveskari, K. Karppinen, E. Suoninen, S. Eklund, M. Eskelin |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Response to therapy Infrared Rays Occlusal Adjustment Electric Stimulation Therapy Electromyography law.invention Randomized controlled trial Shoulder Pain law medicine Humans Longitudinal Studies Range of Motion Articular General Dentistry Pain Measurement Neck Pain medicine.diagnostic_test Dental occlusion business.industry Headache Case-control study Exercise Therapy Clinical trial Treatment Outcome Case-Control Studies Chronic Disease Cervical Vertebrae Physical therapy Female Range of motion business Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Oral Rehabilitation. 26:715-721 |
| ISSN: | 1365-2842 0305-182X |
| DOI: | 10.1046/j.1365-2842.1999.00448.x |
| Popis: | The hypothesis that the response to conventional physical therapy of patients suffering from chronic cervicobrachial pain and/or headache can be improved by adjusting dental occlusion, was tested. Forty patients seeking treatment were interviewed and examined prior to treatment, and 6 weeks, 12 months and 60 months after treatment. All patients underwent routine physical therapies. They were pairwise matched for age, gender and type of dental occlusion, and randomly allocated to a true occlusal adjustment group or to a mock adjustment group. The patients and the examiners were unaware of the type of dental treatment given. The outcome variables included subjective pain and discomfort, cervical spine mobility and pain on movement, and comparison of relative EMG activities. The short-term response to therapy was good in both groups. In the long-term, however, the response was significantly better in the patients who had undergone occlusal adjustment than in the mock-adjusted controls. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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