What is it about?
Has TMD pains a psychosocial etiology? This paper shows how the treatment with a traditional splint and a modified behavioral-cognitive coping method gives equally positive results in a highly distressed student population.
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Why is it important?
The applied relaxation method has not before been studied on TMD pain in adults. We need a comparative and long-lasting treatment method for people who do not get pain relief from a traditional splint and exercise instructions.
Perspectives
Doing this study and writing this article was a great pleasure involving interesting debates with my co-authors. This article gave us the opportunity to share this information with other groups and teach people to cope with performance anxiety and exam distress while decreasing muscle tension in the whole body.
Outi Huhtela
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This page is a summary of: Effectiveness of applied relaxation method vs splint in treatment of temporomandibular disorders in Finnish students, Journal of Oral Rehabilitation, November 2019, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/joor.12884.
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