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Effects of Soft Tissue Mobilization of Neck Muscles in Individuals With Myogenous Temporomandibular Disorders: Muscle Energy Technique and Strain-counterstrain

NCT04704102 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 20

Last updated 2021-08-06

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Summary

This is a prospective case series study.There were 20 individuals with chronic neck pain accompanied by myogenous temporomandibular disorders(mTMD) from Linkou and Taoyuan Chang Gung hospitals, and Chang-Gung university. The purpose of this study was, first, to investigate the effects of muscle energy technique (MET) or strain-counterstrain (SCS) applied on the tender or trigger points of neck muscles on improving pain and pressure pain sensitivity in neck and masticatory muscles, the maximal mouth-opening range of motion, chewing endurance, and head-neck-shoulder posture in patients with chronic neck pain accompanied by mTMD. Second, whether the significant effects could be reached within the four-week intervention duration.

Conditions

  • Myogenous Temporomandibular Disorders (mTMD)

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Muscle energy technique (MET)

A manual therapy technique that uses the gentle muscle contractions of the patient to relax and lengthen muscles and normalize joint motion.

BEHAVIORAL

Strain-counterstrain (SCS)

It's also called the "positional release technique", a manual therapy technique that passively positions the hypertonic (spasmed) muscles and dysfunctional joints in positions of shortened or comfort.

BEHAVIORAL

sham SCS

SCS intervention that position with opposite site limb and direction, and with modified method as consider the easiness of a practitioner to press the tender points

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Chang Gung University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
SEQUENTIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-01-11
Primary Completion
2021-06-30
Completion
2021-06-30

Countries

  • Taiwan

Study Locations

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