Distribution of Trigger Points in Patient Who Have Myofascial Pain Disorder

• Conditions: Myofascial Pain
• Interventions: Other: bimanual palpation

• Registration Number: NCT03962556
• Lead Sponsor: Necmettin Erbakan University

Brief Summary

Myofascial pain alone covers 45.3% of the diagnosis of TMJ. It is defined as palpation sensitivity and regional muscle pain. Clinically muscle pain connects to myofascial trigger points.These trigger points are hypersensitive points located in a tense band of the skeletal muscle, which can be described, causing provoked or spontaneous pain. They are divided into two as active and latent. Those who cause spontaneous pain are active, and those who provoke pain are considered latent.Spasm in the chewing muscles with myofascial pain reduces the patient's pain threshold and quality of life.

Therefore, patients with spasm and TMJ pain in the masticatory muscles should be examined for head and neck muscles, the presence of myofascial trigger points should be determined and the head and neck muscles should be included in physical therapy.

The aim of this study was to determine the presence of myofascial trigger points in patients presenting with pain in the masticatory muscles and TMJ region, and to determine the relationship between the presence of trigger point and the degree of pain.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2018-12-15
• Study First Submitted: 2019-02-19
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-05-23
• Study First Posted: 2019-05-24
• Status Verified: 2019-08
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-08-19
• Last Update Posted: 2019-08-20
• Primary Completion: 2020-01-15
• Study Completion: 2020-04-15

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 200

Inclusion Criteria

• Will be conducted in volunteers who applied to our clinic with complaint of TMJ

Exclusion Criteria

• Diagnosed rheumatoid diseases and fibromyalgia.
• Psychiatric drug users.
• Patients who use muscle relaxants.
• TME pathology

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Trigger Point	bimanual palpation	-
Non-Trigger Point	bimanual palpation	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
visual analog scale for pain (VAS)	first day visit	scale to find pain amount , pain scores from 0 to 10 will be taken from patients and higher scores indicate worse pain,all of patient's mean pain score to be determined.
masticatory and cervical muscles examination for determining trigger points	first day visit	detecting the trigger point (yes or no), determining the number of trigger points and determining the region on the muscle

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
prevalence of trigger points in facial pain disorder patients	1 year	to compare pain scores of patients with and without trigger point,the distribution of trigger points on the masticatory and cervical muscles

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Necmettin Erbakan University/Dentistry Faculty; 🇹🇷 Konya, Turkey