Effect of experimental chewing on masticatory muscle pain onset

AUTOR(ES)

Conti, Paulo César Rodrigues, Silva, Rafael dos Santos, Araujo, Carlos dos Reis Pereira de, Rosseti, Leylha Maria N., Yassuda, Shigueharu, Silva, Renato Oliveira Ferreira da, Pegoraro, Luiz Fernando

FONTE

Journal of Applied Oral Science

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2011-02

RESUMO

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the effect of a chewing exercise on pain intensity and pressure-pain threshold in patients with myofascial pain. METHODS: Twenty-nine consecutive women diagnosed with myofascial pain (MFP) according to the Research Diagnostic Criteria comprised the experimental group and 15 healthy age-matched female were used as controls. Subjects were asked to chew a gum stick for 9 min and to stay at rest for another 9 min afterwards. Pain intensity was rated on a visual analog scale (VAS) every 3 min. At 0, 9 and 18 min, the pressure-pain threshold (PPT) was measured bilaterally on the masseter and the anterior, medium, and posterior temporalis muscles. RESULTS: Patients with myofascial pain reported increase (76%) and no change (24%) on the pain intensity measured with the VAS. A reduction of the PPT at all muscular sites after the exercise and a non-significant recovery after rest were also observed. CONCLUSION: The following conclusions can be drawn: 1. there are at least two subtypes of patients with myofascial pain that respond differently to experimental chewing; 2. the chewing protocol had an adequate discriminative ability in distinguishing patients with myofascial pain from healthy controls.

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