Effects of Physiotherapy Combined with Manual Therapy on Temporomandibular Disorders
WANG Chuan-jie
ZHU Jie
Abstract：Objective To analyze the effects of physiotherapy and manual therapy on temporomandibular disorders (TMD). Methods 90 patients with TMD were randomly divided into the medicine group (group A, n=30), physiotherapy group (group B, n=30) and physiothera-py combined with manual therapy group (group C, n=30). They were assessed with Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) of pain, maximum active mouth opening and joint clicking (100%before treatment) before and 4 weeks after treatment. Results All the patients improved in the pain after treatment (P<0.01), while the group B also improved in the maximum active mouth opening (P<0.01), and the group C improved in all the assessments (P<0.001). The result of all the assessment ranked from better to worse were group C, group B and group A (P<0.001). Con-clusion Physiotherapy combined with manual therapy can improve the pain, the activity of mouth and joint clicking of TMD patients.
Keywords：temporomandibular disorderphysiotherapymanual therapy
Publication Date：2014-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 1168-1170 )