Comparison of the efficacy of dry needling and trigger point injections with exercise in temporomandibular myofascial pain treatment

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dc.contributor.authorAksu, Ozge
dc.contributor.authorDogan, Yasemin Pekin
dc.contributor.authorCaglar, Nil Sayiner
dc.contributor.authorSener, Belit Merve
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-23T19:25:33Z
dc.date.available2025-03-23T19:25:33Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.departmentSinop Üniversitesi
dc.description25th National Congress of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation -- APR 22-26, 2015 -- Antalya, TURKEY
dc.description.abstractObjectives: We aimed to compare the efficacy of dry needling, trigger point injection, and protection methods through physical exercise on clinical symptoms and the pain threshold in patients with temporomandibular myofascial pain. Patients and methods: Between March 2013 and September 2013, in a random consecutive manner, a total of 63 consecutive patients (10 males, 53 females; median age 39.4 +/- 14.9 years; range, 18 to 65 years) were randomly divided into three groups: Group 1 (only exercise and protection training), Group 2 (dry needling + exercise + protection training), and Group 3 (trigger point injection + exercise + protection training). Dry needling or trigger point injection was performed for three times to the patients in Group 2 and Group 3 on a weekly basis. All patients were followed on Day 10 and at one month. Results: A statistically significant improvement in the assessment and response variables was found for all groups, particularly for pain and functional limitation status (p<0.001). All groups were similar in terms of the improvement degree (p<0.001). Although not statistically significant, the highest improvement in the facial pain was seen in Group 3 on Day 10 (p=0.235); however, on Day 30, no significant difference was observed. Conclusion: Our study results showed that improvement in the subjective and objective symptoms in all treatment groups. Particularly, only exercise therapy was found to be beneficial as invasive methods. We suggest that all these methods should be applied together to achieve long-term efficacy.
dc.identifier.doi10.5606/tftrd.2019.1802
dc.identifier.endpage235
dc.identifier.issn2587-0823
dc.identifier.issue3
dc.identifier.pmid31663071
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ2
dc.identifier.startpage228
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.5606/tftrd.2019.1802
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11486/4499
dc.identifier.volume65
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000499639000004
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ3
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakPubMed
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherBaycinar Medical Publ-Baycinar Tibbi Yayincilik
dc.relation.ispartofTurkish Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
dc.relation.publicationcategoryKonferans Öğesi - Uluslararası - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_WOS_20250323
dc.subjectDry needling
dc.subjectexercise
dc.subjectmyofascial pain
dc.subjecttemporomandibular joint
dc.subjecttrigger point injection
dc.titleComparison of the efficacy of dry needling and trigger point injections with exercise in temporomandibular myofascial pain treatment
dc.typeConference Object

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