Principais tratamentos fisioterapêuticos na disfunção temporomandibular: uma revisão integrativa

Abstract

The present study, aimed to gather cientific evidences about the phisical therapy resourses used in Temporomandibular Disfunction (TMD). Integrative review carried out following the stages for development proposed by Souza14: 1- Elaboration of the guiding question, 2- Research in literature, 3- Definition of information to be extracted from the selected studies, 4- Critcal analysis of the included studies, 5- Analysis, synthesis e presentation of the results. The research was realized in three different databases, Pubmed, LILACS and Scielo, from april 2013, in portuguese, english or Spanish, with full access to its contents, which adressed the phisycal therapy treatment in TMD, that resulted in four hundred and forty-eight (n=448) studies. After this pre-selection, three round were carried out to choose the articles that would be selected to compose the review: Duplicate articles were excluded (n=349), articles that did not fit the inclusion and exclusion criteria (n=80), full reading for selection and ratification of studies (n=16). Physiotherapy has several resources, which according to the literature, have proven to be beneficial for the clinical improvement of patients with TMD. However, the physiotherapeutic resource that proved to be the most effective due to its results and scientific relevance in its studies was Manual Therapy. From this, it is believed that further studies are needed to assess the effectiveness of other physical therapy resources in order to generate new scientific evidence on this topic and thus clarify any doubts that may be relevant in this area.