Effects of Soft Tissue Mobilization of Neck Muscles in Individuals With Myogenous Temporomandibular Disorders: Muscle Energy Technique and Strain-counterstrain

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

20

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

January 11, 2021

Primary Completion Date

June 30, 2021

Study Completion Date

June 30, 2021

Conditions
Myogenous Temporomandibular Disorders (mTMD)
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Muscle energy technique (MET)

A manual therapy technique that uses the gentle muscle contractions of the patient to relax and lengthen muscles and normalize joint motion.

BEHAVIORAL

Strain-counterstrain (SCS)

"It's also called the positional release technique, a manual therapy technique that passively positions the hypertonic (spasmed) muscles and dysfunctional joints in positions of shortened or comfort."

BEHAVIORAL

sham SCS

SCS intervention that position with opposite site limb and direction, and with modified method as consider the easiness of a practitioner to press the tender points

Trial Locations (1)

33302

Yang-Hua, Lin, Taoyuan District

All Listed Sponsors
lead

Chang Gung University

OTHER

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