TMJ MANAGEMENT - WHAT IS NEW AND RELEVANT

This 2-hour webinar will provide participants with the most updated Evidence Based Approach about evaluation and treatment of patients with temporomandibular disorders and orofacial pain. We will discuss the role of masticatory muscles and the TMJ in relation to the diagnosis of orofacial pain for determining the most appropriate clinical reasoning to be applied.
It will also include a comprehensive presentation on the most updated findings related to sensory and motor impairments and how they are clinically relevant for orofacial pain and we will propose the clinical reasoning for their management. Current evidence shows the role of musculoskeletal impairments in the cervical spine and also TMJ in patients with orofacial pain which has set the stage for a multisystem approach of evaluation, treatment and management of these patients.
Come and find out why manual therapy and dry needling work for temporomandibular pain, integrating their inputs into the central nervous system.

Brief schedule

• TMD Pain, Orofacial Pain and Headaches
• The role of TMJ in headaches
• Common musculoskeletal impairments in patients with TMD pain
• Manual therapy and dry needling interventions for patients with TMD pain

Dr. César Fernández-de-las-Peñas received his Degree in Physical Therapy from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain in 2000. He received a Post-Graduate Diploma in Spinal Manipulative Therapy (6 years) and Osteopathy (DO) from the Scientific European Osteopathic Society in 2005-06. He also received a Post-Graduate Diploma in Myofascial Pain Syndrome from the Universidad Castilla-La-Mancha in 2003. He reached his first PhD degree in Biomedical Sciences in 2007 at the Sensory-Motor Interaction Centre (SMI) in Aalborg University (Denmark) under the supervision of Prof. Lars Arendt-Nielsen. He also finished a second PhD degree in 2008 at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.

Dr. Fernández-de-las-Peñas works as clinical researcher and teacher at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos since 2001 and he is the Head Division of the Pain Laboratory and the Department of Physical Therapy of the same University. He works in private practice specialized in chronic pain from 2000 in Madrid, Spain. He began his career in sport elite players and rheumatology rehabilitation. In 2001 he began in an outpatient clinic focused on chronic pain. He has published around 500 peer-reviewed publications.

The most relevant topics of his research are headaches, neck pain, lateral epicondylalgia, carpal tunnel syndrome, fibromyalgia syndrome and neuro-physiological effects of manual therapy. His clinical research is mainly concentrated on biomedical sciences within neuroscience. He has participated in 60 conferences with related published proceedings and has given several lectures at national and international meetings/workshops /seminars.