Jaw Exercise Therapy and Psychoeducation to Reduce Oral Parafunctional Activities for the Management of Persistent Dentoalveolar Pain.

Abstract

Objective:

To retrospectively analyze the effects of our original combination therapy treatment on patients with nonodontogenic persistent dentoalveolar pain.

Methods:

Twenty-one patients suffering from persistent dentoalveolar pain (nineteen females and two males; mean age ± standard deviation: 55.7 ± 19.6 years) participated in this study. They were treated with a therapy combination of jaw exercise and psychoeducation to reduce oral parafunctional activities every month. The intensity of pain in these subjects was evaluated using a numerical rating scale (NRS) before and after treatment.

Results:

The NRSs at the baseline ranged from 5 to 10 (median, 8), from 0 to 10 (median, 2) at one month after treatment, from 0 to 10 (median, 1) at three months after treatment, and from 0 to 10 (median, 0) at the end of treatment. Pain intensity after treatment improved significantly.

Conclusion:

There was a significant reduction in pain after our combination of therapies as nonpharmacological treatments, and therefore this treatment could be useful in the management of NPDP patients.

• Authors: Izumi Makino, Young-Chang Arai, Shuichi Aono, Masayuki Inoue, Hiroki Sakurai, Yusuke Ohmichi, Kazuhiro Shimo, Makoto Nishihara, Jun Sato, Noboru Hatakeyama, Takako Matsubara, Tatsunori Ikemoto, Takahiro Ushida
• Journal: Pain research & management (Pain Res Manag) Vol. 2018 Pg. 5042067 ( 2018) ISSN: 1918-1523 [Electronic] United States
• PMID: 30275919 (Publication Type: Journal Article)

Topics

• Adult
• Aged
• Aged, 80 and over
• Dyskinesias (etiology, rehabilitation)
• Exercise Therapy (methods)
• Female
• Follow-Up Studies
• Humans
• Jaw (physiology)
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Movement Disorders (etiology, rehabilitation)
• Pain Measurement
• Patient Education as Topic (methods)
• Retrospective Studies
• Toothache (complications, psychology, rehabilitation)
• Young Adult