Intro to TMD's Flashcards
What are TMD’s
Group of unreleated disease states with a common set of symptosm
what are the common set of symptoms form TMD
Pain and jaw dysfunction
why do dentist care about TMD
Patients may have a TMD
used to be treated by dentist in past
Dental health related to jaw
TMJ surgery remains under ORal maxofilogical surgery
2 types of TMD’s
Extracapsular (non-joint related, usually muscaular)
Joint related
what is true TMJ disease
Joint related TMD
is all jaw pain/dysfunction TMD
No
other sources of jaw pain/dysfunction
Neuralgias
Headache
Neurological/neuromuscular disease
Coronary artery disease
what do we tend to mix symptoms with
mix symptoms such as muscle pain with diagnosis such as myofascial pain
what do we confer causation on
structural appearance (i.e disc is the center of the TMJ universe)
what are some misconceptions about TMS
assumption about causes
association with craizness
Mystery
How does one deal with TMD’s
manageing the problem
are TMD patients male or female
Most are female
what often comes along with TMD
most have concomitant depression, anxiety, firbomyalgia, irritable bowel syndrom…
treatment succes of TMD
some have very difficult problems and a few wont ever get well
what is pain
An unpleasant sensory and emotion experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage
what does pain include
an experience and knowing that it was bad
How to define pain clinicaly
Location of symptom intensity of symptom (1-10) qualitiy of symptom (burning...) Onset of symptom + precipitat.ing factors Radiationof symptoms (show me where) associated symtpoms (sound...) Alleviating factors (avoid jaw function) Aggravating factors (singing.... which pain do you mean when you \_\_\_\_\_ [ what pain happens does it hurt before getting out of bed...
how will a patient show well localized pain
one finger pointing
how will a patient show ill-defined pain
moves fingers/palm across cheek and temple
well localized pain is a symptom of what type of TMD
Joint pain
Ill definied pain is a symptom of what type of TMD
Muscle pain
masticatory muscle disorders from most common to least common
Local myalgia Myofascial pain Centrally mediated myalgia myospasm Myositis Myofibrotic contracture masticatory muscle neoplasia
symptoms of local myalgia
stiff
sore
achy
cramp with chewing, opening wide, or awakening
Causes of local myalgia
Ischemia Bruxism Fatigue Splinting delayed-onset muscle soreness
Diagnostic findings for local myalgia
Regional dull ache with function
No or minimal pain at rest
Local tenderness to palpation
absence of trigger points and pain referal patterns
Symptoms of Myofascial pain
Region dull, aching pain
Trigger points
OVerlap with tension-type headache
causes of myofascial pain
Not well understood
Diagnostic findings of myofascial pain
regional pain aggravated by function
trigger point palpation causes wider area pain with predictable referral
reduction of pain with trigger point treatment
soft end feel with stretch
what is splinting
when pain in a joint, muscles stiffen up to hold the joint
what is soft end feel
at end of stretch, can keep going but with pain
what is a trigger point
a sensitive palpable nodule within the body of muscle
what may associate with trigger points
A taut band strand of contracted muscle
do we all agree trigger points exist
contraversial due to histo not showing anything
- may have high local levels of pain mediators
what can pressure to trigger points do
Cause pain referral in predictable patterns
how to treat trigger points
Injection (local anesthetic, corticosteroid, saline)
Dry needling
spray and stretch (Capocoolant spray)
symptoms of centrally mediated myalgia
Chronic, cont muscle pain
no clinical inflammation
Causes of central mediated myalgia
Prolonged nociceptive input
chronic autonomic upregulation
stress
other deep pain input