The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of induced masseter muscle pain on jaw–neck movements during a continuous jaw opening-closing task. MethodsSixteen healthy men performed continuous jaw opening-closing movements to a target position, defined as 75% of the maximum jaw opening. ...
Related to Masseter muscle:temporalis muscle mas·se·ter (mə-sē′tər, mă-) n. A thick muscle in the cheek that closes the jaws during chewing. [New Latinmassētēr, from Greekmasētēr, massētēr, frommasāsthai,to chew.] ...
At 100% and about 50% of maximum voluntary isometric contraction strength of the masseter muscle, six healthy human subjects exercised tooth clenching until there was onset of muscle pain in 42 and 146 sec, respectively. Onset of pain, at maximum contraction strength, might have been due to th...
Myofascial Pain Dysfunction Syndrome Treatment by Occlusal Equilibration Using T-Scan and Electromyography for the Precise Analysis of Muscle Activity (1-4, 14, 15) It extends inferiorly to the attachment of the medial pterygoid and masseter muscles to the mandible and the superomedial margin of ...
by changing the hardness of a gum bolus modifies the timing of chewing, the maximal gape, and the activity in the masseter muscle on the chewing side... O Plesh,B Bishop,W Mccall - 《Experimental Neurology》 被引量: 320发表: 1986年 Sex differences in masticatory muscle pain after chewing...
Sex differences in the contribution of ATP-sensitive K+ channels in trigeminal ganglia under an acute muscle pain condition In this study, we examined whether functional subunits of the ATP-dependent K+ channel (KATP) are expressed in trigeminal ganglia (TG), which contains sens... K. Niu and...
The powerful masseter muscle originates along the full length of the facial crest and zygomatic arch and has wide insertions along the caudo-lateral aspect of the mandible, with its deeper fibers running ventrocaudally and its more superficial fibers running almost vertically. ...
RESULTS: HS-evoked pain was significantly and similarly reduced by both PASAT (30.8 ± 27.6%; P .05). PASAT and CPT increased the heart rate compared with control (P .05). CONCLUSION: CPT and PASAT reduced HS-evoked masseter muscle pain and altered the autonomic response. The increase in...
Define masseter. masseter synonyms, masseter pronunciation, masseter translation, English dictionary definition of masseter. n. A thick muscle in the cheek that closes the jaws during chewing. mas′se·ter′ic adj. American Heritage® Dictionary of the
Two injections separated by 25 min of 0.2 ml, 1.0 M glutamate into the masseter muscle produced significantly higher scores of pain on 0–10 cm visual analogue scales (VAS) in women than in men (analysis of variance, ANOVA: P<0.001). There was no significant difference between the VAS ...