The additional value of a home physical therapy regimen versus patient education only for the treatment of myofascial pain of the jaw muscles: Short-term results of a randomized clinical trial

Journal of Orofacial Pain

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 114-125

  Michelotti, Ambra ^a   Steenks, Michel H ^b   Farella, Mauro ^c   Parisini, Francesca ^c   Cimino, Roberta ^c   Martina, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Myofascial pain; Patient education; Physiotherapy; Pressure pain threshold; Randomized clinical trial

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDON; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; JAW MOVEMENT; JAW MUSCLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; MASTICATION; MYOFASCIAL PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF CARE; TEMPORALIS MUSCLE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASTICATORY MUSCLES; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; SELF CARE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DYSFUNCTION SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2442624714     PISSN: 10646655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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