Kelly Cristina Borges Tacon

Evangelical University Of Goias - Unievangelica, Goias, Brazil

Abstract Title: Multidisciplinary approach to stomatognathic system disorders: Case Report

Biography: Kelly Tacon holds a PhD in Health Sciences from the College of Medicine at Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG) , Postgraduate in Dermatofunctional, Cardiovascular and Respiratory Physiotherapy and also Orthopedics & Sports with an emphasis on injectables. She was also a Physiotherapist and Physical Educator at UniEvangelica, where she taught multidisciplinary internship classes in Oral Rehabilitation in the Physiotherapy and Dentistry courses, as well as in postgraduate studies at the Inspirar College (Temporomandibular Disorder (TMJ) module) She was also a Peer Reviewer of the RESU Magazine of the College of Medicine at UniEvangelica. She worked on several research projects with an emphasis on TMJ, Neuropathic and Orthopedic diseases, where she has published extensive scientific articles in various areas of Physiotherapy. She worked as a Physiotherapist Officer and Chief of the Physiotherapy Service of the Brazilian Air Force.

Research Interest: Eagle syndrome (ES) is the calcification of the styloid ligament accompanied by pain in the cervical spine when performing rotation and tilt movements of the cervical spine. We present the case of a patient L.C.S., male, 50 years old, bricklayer, referred to the TMD and Pain Clinic of the UniEvangelica Dentistry Service, with complaints of pain and clicking in the TMJ region. During the physical examination, he reported bilateral pain in the masseter, SCM and paracervical muscles. The pain represents VAS 5, pulsatile, daily, increases with facial movements and does not decrease. He also reported not using medication and feeling frequent otalgia and headache. He presented limitation of ROM in all mandibular movements. During intraoral palpation, he presented pain in the left medial pterygoid muscle and bilateral pain in the masseter muscle. In the cervical examination, the patient reported pain during flexion, rotation and tilt movements, but without restrictions on movement. On radiographic examination, bilateral prolongation of the calcified styloid processes was observed. Given the clinical and radiographic evidence, the conclusive diagnosis was Eagle Syndrome. The patient was referred to the Physiotherapy Service of UniEvangeélica, where the treatment aimed to alleviate the pain, gain ROM and improve functional capacity, as well as a surgical evaluation by the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinic of the Dentistry Service of UniEvangelica. Therapeutic options for ES include surgical excision of the styloid processes and physiotherapy has a conservative action, which can reduce associated symptoms and improve mandibular function when treatment is limited to a wait-and-see approach due to the patient's age or condition. It was observed that the patient had improvement in pain and mandibular movements after physiotherapy treatment, which is an excellent immediate therapeutic option after surgery.