NCT01725867

Comparing the Effect of Physical Therapy With Oral Appliance on Temporomandibular Disorder Related Myofascial Pain

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 49 (actual)
• Sponsor: National Taiwan University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 20 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

the purpose of this study is to compare the effect of physical therapy (PT) program and oral appliance on patients with temporomandibular disorder (TMD)-related myofascial pain (MFP).

Detailed description

The details of each intervention are listed as following: * physical therapy program group (PT): manual myofascial release over craniomandibular system, chin-in exercise and self-care education * oral appliance group (splint): custom-made stabilization splint and self-care education

Conditions

• Temporomandibular Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	PT program	manual myofascial release for craniomandibular system for 30\~40 minutes chin-in exercise within 10 minutes and as home exercise self-care education twice per week for 8 weeks
DEVICE	oral appliance	custom-made oral appliance: wear every night for 8 weeks, occasional drop is allowed self-care education

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-06-01
• Primary completion: 2011-03-01
• Completion: 2011-03-01
• First posted: 2012-11-14
• Last updated: 2012-11-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan