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Musculoskeletal facial pain

Summary

Musculoskeletal pain is after odontalgia the second most common pain in head and neck region. At the same time pain is the chief complaint in most temporomandibular disorders and all muscular troubles. The principle of pain management is usage of the conservative methods and sequental loading of the more serious and invasive therapy. The most frequent painful problems in the temporomandibular joint region are protective co-contraction, local muscular tenderness, myofascial pain and dysfunction, and fibromyalgia. Most frequent painful joint disorders are capsulitis, synovitis, and retrodiscitis (inflammatory disturbance of the soft parts of temporomandibular joint), and osteoartritis. Authors describe in details some categories of painful troubles of temporomandibular joint and present the most useful way of conservative treatment of the artralgias. Based on clinical experiences, the therapeutical algorithm for the diagnostic categories is displayed.
Key words: facial pain, musculoskeletal pain, temporomandibular joint disorders

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