Static sagittal cervical alignment, pain, and jaw functional limitation across temporomandibular disorder subtypes: a cross-sectional study
Tolgahan Kara, Nursena Ünlü Kuzu, Elif Doğan, Dilan Bayram · 2026
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Tolgahan Kara and co-authors compare neck alignment, pain, and jaw limits across jaw joint disorder subtypes, published in 2026. Posture of the neck is often blamed in temporomandibular disorders, but hard comparisons by subtype are few. The cross-sectional study grouped patients by standard diagnostic criteria.
Over a hundred participants, patients and healthy controls, were classed as healthy, muscle pain type, or one of two disc displacement types. Jaw and neck pain were scored on simple scales, jaw function by a short questionnaire, and neck angles were read from side X-rays. Jaw pain and function limits were worst in the group whose disc does not reduce, clearly above controls. Neck alignment angles, however, did not differ between groups. The authors discuss what that split means for posture theories.
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| CREATOR | Tolgahan Kara, Nursena Ünlü Kuzu, Elif Doğan, Dilan Bayram |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |