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Hi, I am Doctor Ana Brightleaf
my practice is cosmetic and
holistic dentistry
we do but on a lot of work that patients who have tmj problems
migraines, headaches
ringing in the ears
and one of services that we are able to offer our patients
is a physical therapy program. This is one of my
assistants, Yvette
who is trained in this program.
We're gonna demonstrate some of the therapies we use.
We begin with the ultrasound
and the ultrasound unit helps
muscles to have
more blood flow and
begin the relaxation process.
The next thing
that we do is a 15-minute head and neck massage to warm up the tissue and get the muscles to relax
we work on the trigger points which are areas in the muscles that are very tense
to get those to relax.
The next thing we used is an alpha-stim unit
which is a microcurrent
unit.
The therapist knows exactly where these trigger points
are.
And she works with the patient
with the alpha-stim
to get them to relax
and actually at the cell level
there are changes
the muscle makes
it begins to rehabilitate and changes its focus.
The next thing we do is
use a cold laser on the TM joint
in association with some muscle stretching.
So Yvette's going to
demonstrate that to you now.
She places it on the joint.
This whole process actually takes an hour.
The patient comes in once a week
for a pre-determined number of weeks depending on their condition
and also has a home therapy program.
Our patients are finding this to be a
big rehabilitation for them
in their process
of healing their TMJ problems.
Thank you for watching