Trigeminal Nerve Reflexes in Chronic Pain Syndromes

Reshkova,; Bogdanova,; Milanov, Ivan

doi:10.21767/2171-6625.100025

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“…Some studies showed the cervico-cephalic reflexes are sensitized in headache due to central pain facilitation (Reshkova, Bogdanova & Milanov, 2015). Electromyography recording of muscles in headache patients especially in tension type headache, (TTH) showed increase of intensity of rest and duration of masseter muscle activity during chewing-like motion (Hatef et al, 2012; Jensen, Fuglsang-Frederiksen & Olesen, 1994; Shimada, Baad-Hansen & Svensson, 2015; Sohn, Choi & Jun, 2013).…”

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The power features of Masseter muscle activity in tension-type and migraine without aura headache during open-close clench cycles

Savareh

Ghanjal

Bashiri

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IntroductionDifferent types of headaches and TMJ click influence the masseter muscle activity. The aim of this study was to assess the trend of energy level of the electromyography (EMG) activity of the masseter muscle during open-close clench cycles in migraine without aura (MOA) and tension-type headache (TTH) with or without TMJ click.MethodsTwenty-five women with MOA and twenty four women with TTH participated in the study. They matched with 25 healthy subjects, in terms of class of occlusion and prevalence of temporomandibular joint (TMJ) with click. The EMG of both masseter muscles were recorded during open-close clench cycles at a rate of 80 cycles per minute for 15 seconds. The mouth opening was restricted to two centimeters by mandibular motion frame. Signal processing steps have been done on the EMG as: noise removing, smoothing, feature extraction, and statistical analyzing. The six statistical parameters of energy computed were mean, Variance, Skewness, Kurtosis, and first and second half energy over all signal energy.ResultsA three-way ANOVA indicated that during all the cycles, the mean of energy was more and there was a delay in showing the peak of energy in the masseter of the left side with clicked TMJ in MOA group compared to the two other groups, while this pattern occurred inversely in the side with no-clicked TMJ (P < 0.009). The variation of energy was significantly less in MOA group compared to the two other groups in the no-clicked TMJ (P < 0.003). However, the proportion of the first or second part of signal energy to all energy showed that TTH group had less energy in the first part and more energy in the second part in comparison to the two other groups (P < 0.05).ConclusionThe study showed different changes in the energy distribution of masseter muscle activity during cycles in MOA and TTH. MOA, in contrast to TTH, had lateralization effect on EMG and interacted with TMJ click.

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