Tratamento de dor de cabeça relacionada com a dor miofascial: relato de caso clínico / Management of headache related to myofascial pain: clinical case report
Rev. odontol. UNESP
; 34(1): 31-36, jan.-mar. 2005. ilus
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RESUMO
As dores de cabeça são sintomas usualmente apontados pelos pacientes que sofremde desordens temporomandibulares (DTM). Alguns estudos recentes demonstraram uma relaçãosignificativa entre cefaléia e sinais e sintomas de desordens temporomandibulares, especificamentecom dor miofascial. Quando essa associação ocorre, o tratamento deve ser direcionado para a causado problema (dor miofascial) ou, com certeza, resultará em insucesso e prejuízos para o paciente. Éapresentado o caso clínico da paciente E.P.S., 30 anos, gênero feminino, que compareceu à clínicade Desordens Temporomandibulares da FOAr-UNESP, com queixa principal de dor de cabeça, quese estendia até o pescoço, com intensidade 10 na escala numérica de 1 a 10, freqüência 6x/semanae duração de 2 a 24 horas por dia. Após anamnese e exame físico, foi diagnosticado que a dor decabeça era atribuída a ôtrigger-pointsõ localizados nos músculos temporal e esternoclidomastóideo.Foram apresentados a seqüência clínica de diagnóstico e o tratamento do caso em questão, queenvolveu aconselhamento, fisioterapia, farmacoterapia e injeção nos ôtrigger-pointsõ, com orestabelecimento da qualidade de vida da paciente.
ABSTRACT
Headaches are symptoms usually reported by patients that suffer of tempomandibulardisorders (TMD). Some recent studies demonstrated a significant relationship between headachesand signs and symptoms of tempomandibular disorders, specifically with myofascial pain.When this association is present, the treatment should be addressed to the cause of the problem(myofascial pain) or it will certainly result in failure and injuries to the patient. It is presented aclinical case report of a female patient, E.P.S., 30 years-old, that presented to the FOARûUNESPTemporomandibular Disorders Clinic, with a chief complaint of headache, that extended to theneck, with an intensity of 10, in a numerical scale ranging from 0-10, frequency of 6 days a week,and duration of 2 to 24 hours a day. After anamnesis and clinical examination it was diagnosed thatthe headache was referred of trigger-points in the temporalis and styernocleidomastoid muscles.We present the complete clinical sequence of diagnosis and treatment of the case, which consistedof counseling, physiotherapy, farmacoteraphy and trigger-points injection, with the recovering ofthe patientÆs quality of life.
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Database:
LILACS
Main subject:
Facial Pain
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Diagnosis
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Headache
Type of study:
Diagnostic_studies
Language:
Pt
Journal:
Rev. odontol. UNESP
Journal subject:
ODONTOLOGIA
Year:
2005
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Brazil