Valoración osteopática de la articulación témporomandibular y su asociación con cervicalgias en los docentes de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas de la Universidad Católica Santiago de Guayaquil.

Abstract

The dysfunctions of the temporomandibular joint can lead to many pathologies, among which are cervicalgias which most of society have suffered or suffer from, the present work determines the functional condition of the temporomandibular joint as a causal factor of cervicalgias in the faculty of medical science faculty of the Santiago de Guayaquil Catholic University, which in most cases in consultation are not taken into account this relationship of bone structures that lead to an alteration, which leads to propose a physiotherapeutic plan using osteopathic maneuvers for the mechanical rearrangement of bone structures. For this work, a cross-sectional study was carried out since a single quantitative descriptive approach information collection was carried out because it focuses on the tabulation of the data collected from the measurement of the variables to be able to support the hypothesis, and not It is experimental because the study is based on the description of the phenomenon to be studied and because the study is observational. The population universe was of # teachers, of these a sample of 60 was taken, distributed in 20 teachers per race. The results obtained show interesting data among which indicates that the dysfunction with greater prevalence is "right translation", and that not all participants have muscle dysfunction. What must be emphasized is that absolutely all teachers had at least one structural dysfunction despite the fact that not all of them had cervical disease. With these data we can conclude that TMJ dysfunctions are present in the whole population, which indicates that they can generate a cervicálgias having the dysfunction as its etiology.