April 2012 References   Devin J. Starlanyl   for http://www.sover.net/~devstar

 

Aggarwal A, Keluskar V. 2012. Physiotherapy as an adjuvant therapy for treatment of TMJ disorders. Gen Dent. 60(2):e119-122. “Physiotherapy has long been used to cure joint and muscle diseases. It has also been used to treat various diseases without inflicting mental trauma or the pain of surgery. This adjunctive therapeutic modality is widely used for patients with orofacial disorders, especially in the prevention or treatment of temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorder, hypomobility, or ankylosis. Physiotherapy has a particular importance in the treatment of TMJ disorders such as myofascial pain and internal derangement. This review article highlights the importance of physiotherapy as an emerging adjuvant therapy in the treatment of TMJ disorders.”

 

Avrahami D, Hammond A, Higgins C et al. 2012. A randomized, placebo-controlled double-blinded comparative clinical study of five over-the-counter non-pharmacological topical analgesics for myofascial pain: single session findings. Chiropr Man Therap. 20(1):7. “120 subjects were entered into the study (63 females; ages 16-82); 20 subjects randomly allocated into each group.....With regards to pressure threshold, PTMC (Professional Therapy MuscleCare Roll-on), BG (Ben-Gay Ultra Strength Muscle Pain Ointment) and MM (Motion Medicine Cream) showed significant increases in pain threshold tolerance after a short-term application on a trigger points located in the trapezius muscle. PTMC roll-on and BG were both shown to be superior vs. placebo while PTMC was also shown to be superior to IH (Icy Hot Extra Strength Cream) in patients with trigger points located in the trapezius muscle on a single application.”

 

Dell’Osso L, Carmassi C, Consoli G et al. 2011. Lifetime post-traumatic stress symptoms are related to the health-related quality of life and severity of pain/fatigue in patients with fibromyalgia. Clin Exp Rheumatol. 29(6 Suppl 69):S73-78. “Our results corroborate the presence of a relationship between the lifetime exposure to potentially traumatic events, in particular loss events, and lifetime post-traumatic stress symptoms and the severity of illness and HRQoL (health-related quality of life) in patients with FM.”

 

Feng B, La JH, Schwartz ES et al. 2012. Neural and neuro-immune mechanisms of visceral hypersensitivity in irritable bowel syndrome. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. [Mar 8 Epub ahead of print]. “Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is characterized as ‘functional’ because a pathobiological cause is not readily apparent. Considerable evidence, however, documents that sensitizing pro-inflammatory and lipotoxic lipids, mast cells and their products, tryptases, enteroendocrine cells and mononuclear phagocytes and their receptors are increased in tissues of IBS patients with colorectal hypersensitivity. It is also clear from recordings in animals of the colorectal afferent innervation that afferents exhibit long-term changes in models of persistent colorectal hypersensitivity. Such changes in afferent excitability and responses to mechanical stimuli are consistent with relief of discomfort and pain in IBS patients, including relief of referred abdominal hypersensitivity, upon intra-rectal instillation of local anesthetic. In the aggregate, these experimental outcomes establish the importance of afferent drive in IBS, consistent with a larger literature with respect to other chronic conditions in which pain is a principal complaint (e.g., neuropathic pain, painful bladder syndrome, fibromyalgia). Accordingly, colorectal afferents and the environment in which these receptive endings reside constitute the focus of this review.”        

 

Fraga BP, Santos EB, Farias Neto JP et al. 2012. Signs and symptoms of temporomandibular dysfunction in fibromyalgic patients. J Craniofac Surg. 23(2):615-618. “The most common signs (A) and symptoms (B) reported by FM patients were (A) pain in the masticatory muscles (masseter, 80%; posterior digastric, 76.7%), pain in the temporomandibular joint (83.3%), and 33.3% and 28.3%, respectively, presented joint sounds when opening and closing the mouth; (B) headache (97%) and facial pain (81.7%). In regard to the classic triad for the diagnosis of the TMD, it was found that 35% of the FM patients presented, at the same time, pain, joint sounds, and alteration of the mandibular movements. It was verified that myofascial pain without limitation of mouth opening was the most prevalent diagnosis (47%) for the RDC subgroup I. For the subgroup II, the disk displacement with reduction was the most prevalent diagnosis (21.6%). For the subgroup III, 36.7% of the subjects presented osteoarthritis.....Thus, there is a high prevalence of signs and symptoms of TMD in FM patients, indicating the need for an integrated diagnosis and treatment of these patients, which suggest that the FM could be a medium- or long-term risk factor for the development of TMD.” [It is of critical importance that research papers specify the criteria used for the identification of for myofascial trigger points. All of these symptoms can be caused by TrPs, including disc displacement and restricted mouth opening.  Most patients with osteoarthritis also have TrPs. We need to shift the focus from FM (the central sensitization) to the cause of the central sensitization (TrPs) DJS].

 

Huggins T, Boras AL, Gleberzon BJ et al. 2012. Clinical effectiveness of the activator adjusting instrument in the management of musculoskeletal disorders: a systematic review of the literature. J Can Chiropr Assoc. 56(1):49-57. “This systematic review of eight clinical trials involving the use of the AAI found reported benefits to patients with a spinal pain and trigger points, although the clinical trials reviewed suffered from many methodological limitations, including small sample size, relatively brief follow-up period and lack of control or sham treatment groups.”

 

Ramanathan S, Panksepp J, Johnson B. 2012. Is Fibromyalgia An Endocrine/Endorphin Deficit Disorder? Is Low Dose Naltrexone a New Treatment Option? Psychosomatics. [Apr 3 Epub ahead of print].

 

Richardson K, Gonzalez Y, Crow H et al. 2012. The effect of oral motor exercises on patients with myofascial pain of masticatory system. Case series report. NY State Dent J. 78(1):32-37. “The following case series report explores the impact of oral motor exercises on the management of myofascial pain when used in conjunction with other treatment modalities. Oral motor exercises are used by speech-language pathologists to improve the strength, range of movement and coordination of the oral musculature during non-speech movements. The findings of this case series report suggest an opportunity exists for collaboration between speech-language pathologists and the ‘traditional’ TMD team.” [It will be a new world when the speech-language pathologists discover TrPs. DJS]

      

Schmechel DE, Edwards C. 2012. Fibromyalgia, mood disorders, and intense creative energy: A1AT polymorphisms are not always silent. Neurotoxicology. [Mar 10 Epub ahead of print]. “Persons with single copies of common alpha-1-antitrypsin polymorphisms such as S and Z are often considered ‘silent carriers’. Published evidence however supports a complex behavioral phenotype or trait - intense creative energy ("ICE") -associated with A1AT polymorphisms. We now confirm that phenotype and present an association of fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) and A1AT in a consecutive series of neurological patients....Our findings support the ICE behavioral phenotype for A1AT polymorphism carriers and the reported association with anxiety and bipolar spectrum disorders. We now extend that phenotype to apparent vulnerability to inflammatory muscle disease in a spectrum from JRA to fibromyalgia (FMS) and specific behavioral subsets of ADD, PTSD, and specific late onset neurological syndromes (FTD-PD and PPA). High and low risk FMS subsets can be defined using A1AT, MTHFR and APOE genotyping. Clinical diagnoses associated with A1AT polymorphisms included fibromyalgia, JRA/JIA, bipolar disorder, PTSD, primary progressive aphasia and FTDPD, but not most Alzheimer Disease subtypes. These results support an extended phenotype for A1AT mutation carriers beyond liver and lung vulnerability to selective advantages: ICE phenotype and disadvantages: fibromyalgia, affective disorders, and selected late onset neurological syndromes.”

 

Seed SM, Dunican KC, Lynch AM et al. 2012. An update in options for the treatment of pain: a review of new opioid formulations. Hosp Pract (Minneap). 40(1):166-175. “This article reviews new opioid options for the treatment of pain management and requirements of the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies program.”

 

Tecco S, Marzo G, Crincoli V et al. 2012. The prognosis of myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) during a fixed orthodontic treatment. Cranio. 30(1):52-71. “Among treatments in the literature for myofascial pain syndrome (MPS), the most reliable therapies in dentistry are spray and stretch, and, although less frequently used, anesthetic injection. Adult MPS subjects are often treated using fixed orthodontic therapy for resolution of malocclusion....The purpose of this study was to analyze the prognosis of MPS during orthodontic treatment of subjects with malocclusion, initially diagnosed as having MPS. The analysis covered the medical records of 91 young adult Caucasians scheduled for orthodontic treatment for various malocclusions. Thirty-seven of the patients were initially diagnosed as also having MPS (T0). Thirty patients began the orthodontic treatment and were recalled for a re-evaluation of MPS after dental alignment and dental class correction was achieved (T1). A wait-and-see strategy was applied in seven subjects who were included as the control subjects. They received no treatment for MPS. At T1, a statistically significant decrease was observed in the study group in the presence of any clicking or creaking noises from the jaw joint, a significant jaw joint and jaw muscle pain reduction, and a quality of life improvement. Among patients who were depressed at the beginning of treatment, the majority felt better at the follow-up evaluation. On muscular palpation, a statistically significant decrease was found on the visual analogic scale value of the middle fibers of the temporalis muscle, temporalis tendon, clavicular and sternal division of the sternocleidomastoid muscle, masseter muscles, and posterior cervical muscles. The temporalis and the masseter muscles showed a significant decrease in the number of subjects with trigger points (TrPs) in all areas in the study group, after treatment. The digastric and sternocleidomastoid muscles also showed a significant reduction in the number of subjects with TrPs. Subjects with MPS and malocclusion were treated using a fixed orthodontic treatment. They showed improvement, although no resolution, in the signs and symptoms of MPS, compared with the untreated control group.”

 

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