Association Between Articulation Mandibularis Clicking And Masticatory Muscles Functional Exercise

Objective: To compare the clinical therapeutic efficacy of masticatory muscles functional exercise and ultra-short wave therapy,and investigate a possible pathological mechanism about articulation mandibularis clicking.Methods: 128 patients with articulation mandibularis clicking were selected and divided into two groups(experimental group and control group)of 64 patients each randomly.The patients in the experimental group and the control group were given detailed health education before the treatment so as to get rid of the bad life or work habits before the patients.And masticatory muscle exercise requires patients to have good compliance,through health education allows patients to have a certain understanding of the cause of the disease,and actively carry out muscle exercise.Patients in experimental group were taught to do masticatory muscles functional exercise for 2 weeks,patients in control group were treated with ultra-short wave therapy for 2 weeks.Compare the curative effect after 3 months.SPSS 17 was used for chi square test of two sets of data,and the short-term and long-term effects of the two methods were compared.Results: After 2 weeks,Symptoms of articulation mandibularis clicking disappeared in 64 patients of experimental group and 33 patients of control group,20 patients in control group showed improvement of their symptoms and 11 patients in control showed no improvement.There were significant differences between the two groups(P<0.05).After 3 months,the overall response rate of the two groups were 95.31% and 93.75%,symptoms of articulation mandibularis clicking disappeared in 61 patients of experimental group and 18 patients of control group,22 patients in control group showed improvement of their symptoms and 20 patients in control showed no improvement.There were significant differences between the two groups(P<0.05),and we could see lower therapeutic effect in control group after 3 months(P<0.05).Conclusions: Masticatory muscles functional exercise could cure articulation mandibularis clicking effectly and it's a more effective way when compared with ultra-short wave therpy.