Terapia neural con procaína para el dolor miofascial desde la perspectiva del odontólogo

Abstract

Myofascial pain syndrome refers to pain in skeletal muscle. Neural therapy consists in the utilization of local anesthetics, by excellence, procaine. It produces a nonspecific regulator stimulation in a specific area of NS, and body itself draws on homeostatic self-regulation. To know the information that dentist of dental school FOULA have about neural therapy as a treatment of myofascial pain syndrome using procaine. Materials and methods: It was made a descriptive field research in FOULA. Population was of 102 dentist teachers and sample was of 45. It was selected a survey, questionnaire type, conformed by 9 items. It was obtained nominal rate data by using SPSS for its processing. The 100% of respondents know what myofascial pain syndrome is, 48.9% attended any patient with myofascial pain syndrome, 62.2% know what neural therapy is and they would use it, 44.4% know procaine as a drug used for neural therapy and 60% would use it. In dentistry, neural therapy is recognized as treatment for myofascial neural therapy, most of respondents refer to know diverse procedures like using analgesics. Most of them recognizes the procaine use as local anesthetic, but few knows it as an alternative treatment for NT.