What’s New in TMJ? – key updates and teaching strategies
Presented by Blayne Burrows and Anita Gross
Learning objectives:
To provide instructors with:
- Six teaching summaries to integrate into your TMD session.
- Case-based options to enable integration and synthesis of knowledge
The six summaries will be:
- Diagnostic classification and supporting evidence
- Risk factors and prognostic factor integration
- Outcomes – screening (yellow flag), measurement
- Examination essentials – cluster tests neurodynamics, palpation kit
- Three pillars of TMD treatment
- GRADE of evidence
There will be 2 case-based options
- Simple vs complex
- Arthralgia/OA, myalgia/myofascial, Internal derangement
Bios:
Anita Gross, PT
Anita Gross is a clinician-scientist, educator, and orthopaedic manipulative physical therapist (OMPT). She received a BScPT from U of T (1984), a Graduate Diploma in Manipulative Therapy from Curtain University Australia (1987), Diploma of Advanced Manual and Manipulative Therapy and FCAMPT (1990), a Masters from McMaster University (1994), and the Lifetime Membership Award from CAMPT (2019). She is an Associate Clinical Professor at McMaster University, the coordinator of the OMPT field of study in Rehabilitation Sciences at McMaster University. She is also a lecturer at Western and the Orthopaedic Division of CPA. Her research focus is on Neck Pain and TMJ. She coordinates two research groups: 1) the Cervical Overview Group (11 Cochrane and 4 other systematic reviews on neck pain) and 2) the Head and Neck, Arm, Hand Research Group. She has 120 peer reviewed publications, has been Principal/co-investigator on 30 grants and has been an invited speaker at 20 international events. Her clinical work focuses on the TMJ, neck and spine care. She was a member of the international consensus panel for a TMJ Delphi study and the APTA Neck Pain Clinical Practice Guidelines 2017 update.
Blayne Burrows, PT
Blayne graduated from the University of Saskatchewan in 2007 and began clinical practice in Saskatoon. In 2012, she completed her MClSc at Western University and obtained her FCAMPT credentials. In 2019, Blayne became an instructor in AIM for the National Orthopaedic Division (NOD) of the CPA. She also has been a clinical mentor for AIM, Western University and University of British Columbia. She is the past Vice-Chair and Secretary of the NOD, and past Senior Editor of the Orthopaedic Division Review. She is currently Chair of the NOD Adjunct Education Committee and sits on the Manual Therapy Steering Committee of the CPA. Blayne has a special interest in temporomandibular dysfunction, orofacial and craniofacial pain, and was a co-author of the TMJ clinical chapter for the AIM manuals. She has also assisted in the TMJ lab at the School of Dentistry at the University of Alberta.