Official Title: Effects of Manual Therapy and Home Exercise Treatment on Pain Stress Sleep and Life Quality in Patients with Bruxism a Randomized Clinical Trial
Status: COMPLETED
Status Verified Date: 2024-09
Last Known Status: None
Delayed Posting: No
If Stopped, Why?: Not Stopped
Has Expanded Access: No
If Expanded Access, NCT#: N/A
Has Expanded Access, NCT# Status: N/A
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Brief Summary: Objectives This trial aimed to examine the effects of manual therapy and home exercise treatments on pain sleep quality stress level and quality of life in patients with bruxism
Methods Thirty bruxists over the age of 18 were included in the study The patients were randomly divided into Manual Therapy Group MTG and Home Exercise Group HEG Before treatment T1 demographic information was obtained from all patients they were asked to fill out the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index PSQI Perceived Stress Scale PSS Fonseca Anamnestic Index FAI and Quality of Life ScaleShort Form-36 SF-36 and number of trigger points and pain levels were determined at baseline Manual therapy and home exercises were applied to both groups for 8 weeks and all tests were repeated and re-evaluated at the end of 8 weeks T2 After that the data was analyzed with statistical tests
Detailed Description: Bruxism is a common parafunctional habit defined as clenching andor grinding of teeth occurring during sleep andor wakefulness Although the etiology is not known exactly there is a consensus that it is multifactorial Emotional stress is one of the important factors leading to bruxism It has been shown that a stressful life has an important effect in explaining clenching during the day In addition to stress previous studies showing that psychiatric disorders especially depression and anxiety disorders accompany TMD and bruxism
This trial aimed to examine the effects of manual therapy and home exercise treatments on pain sleep quality stress level and quality of life in patients with bruxism In the study thirty bruxists over the age of 18 were included in the research protocol The patients were randomly divided into Manual Therapy Group MTG and Home Exercise Group HEG Before treatment T1 demographic information was obtained from all patients they were asked to fill out the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index PSQI Perceived Stress Scale PSS Fonseca Anamnestic Index FAI and Quality of Life ScaleShort Form-36 SF-36 and number of trigger points and pain levels were determined at baseline Manual therapy and home exercises were applied to both groups for 8 weeks and all tests were repeated and re-evaluated at the end of 8 weeks T2 The normal distribution of the groups was tested with Kolmogorov-Smirnov Paired Samples t test was used for intra-group comparisons at T1 and T2 and Independent t test was used for inter-group comparisons The statistical significance level was accepted as plt005