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Levels of awareness, current treatment trend and knowledge of Malaysian Physiotherapists in treating patients with Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMD)/ Nur Ardilla Mohd Azlan Goh, Norazlin Mohamad, Saiful Adli Bukry

Temporomandibular disorders (TMD) is a musculoskeletal disorder involving the muscles of masticatory, temporomandibular joint (TMJ) and other associated structures that affect at least a quarter of the general population and the management of TMD are available surgically and non-surgically. In contr...

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Main Authors: Mohd Azlan Goh, Nur Ardilla, Mohamad, Norazlin, Bukry, Saiful Adli
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Published: Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA 2020
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Physical medicine. Physical therapy. Including massage, exercise, occupational therapy, hydrotherapy, phototherapy, radiotherapy, thermotherapy, electrotherapy
RZ Other systems of medicine
Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/55491/1/55491.pdf
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spelling my.uitm.ir.554912022-01-27T09:22:30Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/55491/ Levels of awareness, current treatment trend and knowledge of Malaysian Physiotherapists in treating patients with Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMD)/ Nur Ardilla Mohd Azlan Goh, Norazlin Mohamad, Saiful Adli Bukry Mohd Azlan Goh, Nur Ardilla Mohamad, Norazlin Bukry, Saiful Adli Physical medicine. Physical therapy. Including massage, exercise, occupational therapy, hydrotherapy, phototherapy, radiotherapy, thermotherapy, electrotherapy RZ Other systems of medicine Temporomandibular disorders (TMD) is a musculoskeletal disorder involving the muscles of masticatory, temporomandibular joint (TMJ) and other associated structures that affect at least a quarter of the general population and the management of TMD are available surgically and non-surgically. In contrast, the most recommended approach would be non-surgical, which is physiotherapy. The main goal of physiotherapy is to regain normal mandibular function. Managing TMD is known to be challenging to practitioners, and knowledge frequently has influenced it. This study aims to investigate the levels of awareness, current treatment trends, and knowledge of Malaysian physiotherapists in treating patients with the temporomandibular joint disorder (TMD). A total of 94 physiotherapists in Malaysia participated in this study. A questionnaire consists of four parts related to awareness, knowledge, and treatment approach of TMD distributed via Google form. Overall results showed a fair level awareness and fair level of knowledge among physiotherapists. The current treatment approach of TMD was found to be jaw exercise and manual therapy. There was no significant difference in the qualification of study and the number of years of working as a physiotherapist between the levels of knowledge, awareness, and treatment approach. Based on the findings, it is recommended that physiotherapists to update their knowledge and be more aware of the current treatment of TMD regardless of different qualification of study and the different number of years working in clinical settings. Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA 2020-03 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/55491/1/55491.pdf ID55491 Mohd Azlan Goh, Nur Ardilla and Mohamad, Norazlin and Bukry, Saiful Adli (2020) Levels of awareness, current treatment trend and knowledge of Malaysian Physiotherapists in treating patients with Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMD)/ Nur Ardilla Mohd Azlan Goh, Norazlin Mohamad, Saiful Adli Bukry. Health Scope, 3 (1). pp. 64-70. ISSN 2735-0649 http://healthscopefsk.com/
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topic Physical medicine. Physical therapy. Including massage, exercise, occupational therapy, hydrotherapy, phototherapy, radiotherapy, thermotherapy, electrotherapy
RZ Other systems of medicine
spellingShingle Physical medicine. Physical therapy. Including massage, exercise, occupational therapy, hydrotherapy, phototherapy, radiotherapy, thermotherapy, electrotherapy
RZ Other systems of medicine
Mohd Azlan Goh, Nur Ardilla
Mohamad, Norazlin
Bukry, Saiful Adli
Levels of awareness, current treatment trend and knowledge of Malaysian Physiotherapists in treating patients with Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMD)/ Nur Ardilla Mohd Azlan Goh, Norazlin Mohamad, Saiful Adli Bukry
description Temporomandibular disorders (TMD) is a musculoskeletal disorder involving the muscles of masticatory, temporomandibular joint (TMJ) and other associated structures that affect at least a quarter of the general population and the management of TMD are available surgically and non-surgically. In contrast, the most recommended approach would be non-surgical, which is physiotherapy. The main goal of physiotherapy is to regain normal mandibular function. Managing TMD is known to be challenging to practitioners, and knowledge frequently has influenced it. This study aims to investigate the levels of awareness, current treatment trends, and knowledge of Malaysian physiotherapists in treating patients with the temporomandibular joint disorder (TMD). A total of 94 physiotherapists in Malaysia participated in this study. A questionnaire consists of four parts related to awareness, knowledge, and treatment approach of TMD distributed via Google form. Overall results showed a fair level awareness and fair level of knowledge among physiotherapists. The current treatment approach of TMD was found to be jaw exercise and manual therapy. There was no significant difference in the qualification of study and the number of years of working as a physiotherapist between the levels of knowledge, awareness, and treatment approach. Based on the findings, it is recommended that physiotherapists to update their knowledge and be more aware of the current treatment of TMD regardless of different qualification of study and the different number of years working in clinical settings.
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author Mohd Azlan Goh, Nur Ardilla
Mohamad, Norazlin
Bukry, Saiful Adli
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Mohamad, Norazlin
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author_sort Mohd Azlan Goh, Nur Ardilla
title Levels of awareness, current treatment trend and knowledge of Malaysian Physiotherapists in treating patients with Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMD)/ Nur Ardilla Mohd Azlan Goh, Norazlin Mohamad, Saiful Adli Bukry
title_short Levels of awareness, current treatment trend and knowledge of Malaysian Physiotherapists in treating patients with Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMD)/ Nur Ardilla Mohd Azlan Goh, Norazlin Mohamad, Saiful Adli Bukry
title_full Levels of awareness, current treatment trend and knowledge of Malaysian Physiotherapists in treating patients with Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMD)/ Nur Ardilla Mohd Azlan Goh, Norazlin Mohamad, Saiful Adli Bukry
title_fullStr Levels of awareness, current treatment trend and knowledge of Malaysian Physiotherapists in treating patients with Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMD)/ Nur Ardilla Mohd Azlan Goh, Norazlin Mohamad, Saiful Adli Bukry
title_full_unstemmed Levels of awareness, current treatment trend and knowledge of Malaysian Physiotherapists in treating patients with Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMD)/ Nur Ardilla Mohd Azlan Goh, Norazlin Mohamad, Saiful Adli Bukry
title_sort levels of awareness, current treatment trend and knowledge of malaysian physiotherapists in treating patients with temporomandibular joint disorder (tmd)/ nur ardilla mohd azlan goh, norazlin mohamad, saiful adli bukry
publisher Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA
publishDate 2020
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/55491/1/55491.pdf
https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/55491/
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