The Specificity of Response to Experimental Stress in Patients with Myofascial Pain Dysfunction Syndrome
- 1 September 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Dental Research
- Vol. 58 (9) , 1866-1871
- https://doi.org/10.1177/00220345790580090401
Abstract
Comparison of autonomic and muscular response to experimentally induced stress in normal individuals and patients with myofascial pain dysfunction (MPD) syndrome revealed greater masseter and frontalis activity in the patient group, higher gastrocnemius activity in control subjects, and no significant difference in skin conductance and heart rate. This specificity of response to stress supports the psychophysiologic theory of MPD syndrome.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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