METHOD FOR PREDICTING THE EFFICIENCY OF MANUAL THERAPY AT TREATING THE DYSFUNCTION OF TEMPOROMANDIBULAR ARTICULATION Russian patent published in 2007 - IPC A61B5/05 A61H23/06 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: before the onset of manual therapy it is necessary to measure the pain threshold with the help of a tensoalgometer in projection of cranial junction, that is, symmetrically left- and right-hand: in projection of coronal (frontal-parietal) junction, in the site of altered direction of the slopes of frontal and parietal bones; in projection of wedge-lamellar junction, above zygomatic process of temporal bone, where slope's direction has been changed; in projection of lamellar junction (parietal-temporal) junction, above an ear's top; in projection of parietal-mastoid junction, where the direction of its slope has been changed;; in projection of occipital-mastoid junction, in the site of its altered direction; in projection of lambdoid (parietal-occipital) junction, where the direction of its slope has been changed; in projection of ventral part of sagittal junction, for 2 cm backwards against coronal junction; in projection of dorsal part of sagittal junction, for 2 cm to the front against lambdoid junction. Manual therapy should be fulfilled followed by repeated studying pain threshold with the help of the tensoalgometer in the above-mentioned sites. It is necessary to compare the results of measurements both before and after carrying out therapy and according to increased pain threshold one should detect the efficiency of manual therapy at treating dysfunction of temporomandibular articulation. The innovation enables to objectivize the results therapy conducted and, also, detect the sites for measuring pain threshold by taking into account etiology and pathogenesis in development of pathological process.

EFFECT: higher accuracy and efficiency of prediction.

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