A case of comprehensive rehabilitation of trismus after extraction / 华西口腔医学杂志

ABSTRACT

There are many therapies to treat the trismus, such as durg therapy, occulusal splints, pulsing electromagnetic fields, medical iontophoresis, laser, acupuncture. But there are no objective criterias about the most effective methods. The patient with trismus after extraction was cured by using comprehensive rehabilitation including physical therapy (ultrashort wave electrotherapy, medical iontophoresis, middle frequency electrical therapy), traditional Chinese manipulation, functional training, muscular and joints traction. The patient recovered completely with satisfactory. Thus this method had the advantage of painless, noninvasive and non-stimulation with well clinical practice.