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NIH Clinical Research Trials and You

The National Institutes of Health has created a new website, NIH Clinical Research Trials and...

Avoid a TMD Misdiagnosis...Watch out for Lyme Disease

With a much warmer start to spring, ticks will be out early this year. It’s especially important to take note of this if you live in or will...

TMJ Disc Regeneration Study

Inductive, Scaffold-Based, Regenerative Medicine Approach to Reconstruction of the Temporomandibular Joint Disk  The TMJ disc is composed of...

More on the Role of Estrogens in TMD

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New NIH Funding Opportunites for TMJ Disorders

Administrative Supplements for Collaborative Science: Opportunities for Existing NIDCR Grants and Cooperative Agreements (Admin Supp)

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Patients with Temporomandibular Disorders have Increased Fatigability of the Cervical Extensor Muscles

Feb 15, 2012

Do you have neck and shoulder pain in addition to pain in your temporomandibular joint? A recent study in the Clinical Journal of Pain (Vol. 28, 2012, pgs 55-64) offers a possible explanation for this condition. In this study, muscle activity was analyzed electromyographically in healthy controls, patients with myogenous (muscle) TMD and those with mixed (muscle and joint) TMD while performing a muscle endurance test. The results showed that the cervical muscles fatigued more quickly in the TMD patients than in the control subjects. Thus, such patients may develop neck and shoulder pain more easily than normal persons.

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