Physical therapy for TMJ disorders
Ross Hauser, MD, Danielle Matias, PA-C, Demi Foster, APRN Physical therapy can help people with TMJ disorders by reducing jaw and TMJ joint pain. Mouth opening can be helped with manual therapy and exercises which address the jaw, neck, and shoulders. In November 2022 in the medical journal Biomedicines (1) doctors tested the effectiveness of physical therapy as a treatment of temporomandibular joint dysfunction and the impact the treatment would have on pain coming from the neck. In this paper, 64 patients were divided into two groups. Thirty-three patients underwent conservative drug treatment and physiotherapy treatment, and 31 patients in … Continue reading Physical therapy for TMJ disorders
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