Effects of low-power laser auriculotherapy on the physical and emotional aspects in patients with temporomandibular disorders: A blind, randomized, controlled clinical trial
| Autor: | Kimberly Suellen Bueno, Veridiana Camilotti, Mauro Carlos Agner Busato, Janaina Paula Aroca, Márcio José Mendonça, Manuel da Fonseca Rodrigues, Marisa Lupes Rodrigues |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Complementary and Manual Therapy
Adult Orofacial pain medicine.medical_specialty Auriculotherapy Emotions Research Diagnostic Criteria Pain Occlusal Splints Masseter muscle 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine Humans Pain Management Clinical significance Single-Blind Method 030212 general & internal medicine Low-Level Light Therapy Muscle Skeletal Depression (differential diagnoses) Pain Measurement Advanced and Specialized Nursing business.industry Depression Middle Aged Temporomandibular Joint Disorders Clinical trial Treatment Outcome Complementary and alternative medicine Jaw Physical therapy Female medicine.symptom business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Complementary therapies in medicine. 42 |
| ISSN: | 1873-6963 |
| Popis: | This study evaluated the effects of low-power laser auriculotherapy (LA) on the physical and emotional symptoms of patients with temporomandibular disorders (TMDs), in comparison with occlusal splints (OS).Randomized, blinded, prospective, non-inferiority clinical trial.The patients received OS (control group) or LA (experimental group).Following the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) guidelines, patients with TMD were evaluated by using axes I and II of the Research Diagnostic Criteria for RDC-TMD. Both intra- and intergroup quantitative variables were analyzed with ANOVA (p 0.05), while qualitative variables were analyzed with the Kruskal-Wallis (intergroup evaluations; p 0.05) or Mann-Whitney tests (intragroup analyses; p 0.05).OS improved five physical symptoms of TMD (pain in the right temporal muscle, right and left masseter muscles, left joint, and left intraoral region), while LA improved six (jaw functioning; pain in left masseter muscle, right and left joints, and right and left intraoral regions). Similarly, OS improved seven emotional symptoms (degree of depression, degree of non-specific physical symptoms, excluding pain, degree of non-specific physical symptoms including pain, average pain value in the past 6 months, presence of depression, intensity and characteristics of pain, non-specific physical symptoms including pain), while LA improved five (degree of non-specific physical symptoms including pain, presence of depression, intensity and characteristics of pain, non-specific physical symptoms including pain, non-specific physical symptoms excluding pain).LA improved the physical and emotional symptoms of TMD, with results similar to OS.For the physical and emotional symptoms associated with TMD, LA showed similar outcomes as OS. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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