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Effect of Phototherapy in Individuals With Temporomandibular Disorder.

Effect of Phototherapy on Pain, Muscles Activity and Joint Mobility in Individuals With Temporomandibular Disorder: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled and Double-Blind Clinical Trial.

Status
UNKNOWN
Phases
Phase 1Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT02018770
Enrollment
48
Registered
2013-12-23
Start date
2014-01-31
Completion date
2014-12-31
Last updated
2014-03-11

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Conditions

Temporomandibular Disorder.

Keywords

Temporomandibular Disorders, Electromyogram,, Modalities of physiotherapy,, Temporomandibular dysfunction syndrome,, Lasers.

Brief summary

The present study aims to evaluate the effect of phototherapy with the combination of different sources of light on pain, activity of temporal and masseter muscles, bilateral and joint mobility in subjects with TMD. It will be made a randomized, placebo-controlled and double-blind clinical trial. Individuals participate with myogenic temporomandibular disorder, being allocated into 4 groups randomly and stratified by the method of sealed envelopes. The results will be evaluated using: RDC/TMD, digital caliper, electromyography, and visual analog scale and algometry. The protocols will be used in a single session and will be evaluated in four different moments. The variables that will be investigated are pain, muscle activity and joint mobility. The analyses of the data will be performed by adopting a significance level of 5%.

Interventions

RADIATIONPhototherapy

Portable Cluster 9 PainAway ® diodes manufactured by Multi Radiance Medical ® (Solon, OH-USA), being 1 905 nm diode (1 mW average power 10 W of peak power, spot of 0.44 cm2), 875 nm diodes 4 (17.5 mW average power for each diode, spot of 1 cm2) and 670 nm diodes 4 (15 mW average power for each diode1 spot, cm2), frequency of 1000 Hz, irradiation time of 300 seconds, energy delivered from 39.3 Joules.

The volunteers will be subjected to the same Groups ' intervention and placebo pen Phototherapy.

Sponsors

University of Nove de Julho
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
TRIPLE (Subject, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Age
18 Years to 40 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* 18 to 40 years. * Female volunteers. * Diagnosis of myogenic TMD pain must masseter presenting moderate to severe according to the RDC / TMD. * Display body mass index (BMI) less than 25 kg/m2 to standardize the sample. * In addition, volunteers must submit scores of pain greater than 3 cm according to the Visual Analog Scale masticatory muscles.

Exclusion criteria

* history of neurological disorders. * chronic neck pain resulting from a traumatic incident. * chronic musculoskeletal condition. * medical diagnosis of fibromyalgia; systemic disease. * connective tissue disorder. * having undergone physical therapy use of analgesic, muscle relaxant.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Pain intensity.1 yearWill be used a algometry D-200 of Instrutherm ®, which is a semi quantitative method to measure the intensity of the pain by the pressure, find painful spots, in addition to quantify changes the various pain syndromes.

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Electromyographic activity1 yearThe electrical powers of masticatory muscles will be verified in this study through surface electromyography, specifically the masseter and temporal muscles, serving as a useful tool to quantify muscle activity during Mastication and thus identify its functional changes.

Other

MeasureTime frameDescription
Analysis of superficial cutaneous temperature1 yearA thermal camera model FLIR T450 ® SC Systems (Stockholm, Sweden) is used to measure the surface skin temperature of the masseter and temporal muscles to verify the effect of phototherapy in them.

Countries

Brazil

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Mar 18, 2026