NCT03287531

Effect of Conventional Therapy and Low Level Laser Therapy on Pain and Function in Patients With Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction

Effect of Conventional Therapy and Low Level Laser Therapy on Pain and Function in Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 45 (actual)
• Sponsor: Emad Eldin Mohamed · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study was to determine the effect of conventional therapy and low level laser therapy on pain and function in patients with temporomandibular joint dysfunction. sixty patients with myofascial pain syndrome of TMJ are randomly classified into two groups with thirty patients in each group; Group I received traditional exercise. Group II received low level laser therapy in addition to traditional exercise. All outcome measures including Pain and function, were evaluated before and after the treatment program.

Detailed description

METHODOLOGY Subjects: This prospective study was conducted on thirty patients of both genders with myofascial pain syndrome of TMJ in the department of physical therapy at October 6 university Hospital from December 2016 to October 2017. The Patients were selected to be enrolled into this study according to the following criteria:

Conditions

• Low Level Laser Therapy
• Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	conventional therapy	Exercise therapeutic Ultrasound
OTHER	low level laser therapy	LLLT with the appropriate parameters (904 nm, 8 j/cm2, 250mw) for duration of 20 min with repletion of three treatment sessions per week.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-12-10
• Primary completion: 2017-08-12
• Completion: 2017-08-23
• First posted: 2017-09-19
• Last updated: 2017-09-19