• Pain Res Manag · Jan 2018

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

    • 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, and Takahiro Ushida.
    • Multidisciplinary Pain Center, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Aichi, Japan.
    • Pain Res Manag. 2018 Jan 1; 2018: 5042067.

    ObjectiveTo retrospectively analyze the effects of our original combination therapy treatment on patients with nonodontogenic persistent dentoalveolar pain.MethodsTwenty-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.ResultsThe 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.ConclusionThere 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.

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