Topic: Medical Guideline Books-8
Craniofacial Pain - Neuromusculoskeletal Assessment Treatment And Management (PDF Version)
SOURCE :
Craniofacial Pain - Neuromusculoskeletal Assessment Treatment And Management
AUTHORS :
Harry J. M. von Piekartz
SUMMARY :
The original idea for a book in this format dates back more than 15 years. The driving forces were my interest in the treatment of patients with craniofacial dysfunction and pain, the great number of patients and the many unanswered questions regarding the treatment of such patients. During my manual therapy training in the Maitland Concept from 1988 to 1992 in Bad Ragaz and Zurzach (Switzerland), and later during my teacher training by the International Maitland Teacher Association (IMTA®), Geoff Maitland asked me to standardize the existing techniques and to classify clinical patterns. In 1994, at the end of teacher training, I was given the opportunity to treat his wife Ann with craniofacial and neural techniques for her persisting headache symptoms. Luckily for me, the fi nal result was satisfying. After one month the frequency and intensity of her headaches were reduced and the symptoms were no longer provoked at night. But I did not understand the mechanisms that improved the symptoms that had for so many years affected her life so severely.
I believe that Ann represented a great number of patients that were diagnosed with atypical facial pain, resistant to therapy. Many of these patients seemed to respond positively to a systematic manual therapy approach to the craniofacial region. This was the trigger to publish the book Craniofacial Dysfunction and Pain: Manual Therapy, Assessment and Management in 2001. Explanatory models and ideas based on the literature and the resulting suggestions for neuromusculoskeletal treatment techniques abounded. The fi nal aim to standardize manual techniques and to classify clinical patterns relevant for physiotherapists, manual therapists and other clinicians such as dentists and orthodontists could not be realized sufficiently in that first attempt.
To summarize: the book provides you with ideas and techniques regarding the jaw, face and neck based on current evidence and clinical reasoning. It offers the opportunity to expand the horizon for this group of patients, supported by (new) manual therapy techniques and communication strategies. I hope that it will also stimulate research in this field to increase the amount of reference data for the tests, effect studies and randomized controlled trials. The most important aim is to improve the quality of treatment for the increasing group of patients of all ages that suffer from symptoms in the jaw, face or neck region, which, until now, have not been fully understood.
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