Wel­come to Pain Resource Center’s web­site devoted to help­ing both Indi­vid­u­als and Health­care Pro­fes­sion­als who are deal­ing withTem­poro­mandibu­lar Joint Dis­or­ders (aka“TMJ” ) and Chronic Pain. “TMJ” and chronic pain are wide­spread in our soci­ety, affect­ing tens of mil­lions of peo­ple and caus­ing untold suf­fer­ing. These dis­or­ders pose a sig­nif­i­cant chal­lenge to health­care pro­fes­sion­als who are attempt­ing to help these patients.  Effec­tive diag­no­sis and treat­ment require a broad view of the whole patient and often become highly com­plex. Suc­cess­ful out­comes often require highly trained clinicians. For indi­vid­u­als, this web­site pro­vides infor­ma­tion about “TMJ” and Chronic Pain (audio course) along with the oppor­tu­nity to “self-test” for the pres­ence and sever­ity of “TMJ” and the pain, phys­i­cal dys­func­tion, stress and emo­tional dis­tress it can cause. This“self-test” done quickly, inex­pen­sively, and in the pri­vacy of the individual’s home uses the most advanced, most sci­en­tif­i­cally researched and most accu­rate test of its kind cur­rently available. READ ABOUT THE TMJ Scale™ PATIENT SELF-TEST

New Book– “The International Faces of Chronic Pain“ by Dr. Steve Levitt, MD, PhD.  Pain drawings and descriptions by patients with chronic pain in 8 countries (U.S., Australia, England, Finland, Germany, Scotland, Sweden and Syria)  at Amazon.com .

For health­care providers, this web­site pro­vides a sophis­ti­cated, on-line, test­ing and report­ing ser­vice employ­ing the widely acceptedTMJ Scale^TM to doc­u­ment the pres­ence and sever­ity of “TMJ”, its phys­i­cal and emo­tional con­comi­tants and to quan­ti­ta­tively mea­sure treat­ment effec­tive­ness and out­come. This widely researched and highly accu­rate assess­ment, treat­ment and risk man­age­ment tool is used suc­cess­fully by many of the most respected “TMJ” Spe­cial­ists across the U.S., and internationally, on hundreds-of-thousands of patients.  Leading practitioners of Dental Sleep Medicine (see under Clinician Resources) who use Oral Appliance Therapy use the TMJ Scale as a valuable clinical and Risk Management tool to detect and document ‘Presence’ and ‘Absence’ of a TMJ disorder before initiating treatment and in the management phase.  Other testing services on this website include: TMJ/Compare^TM  which compares the results of two TMJ Scales administered to a patient at different times and calculates and graphs changes indicating treatment effectiveness and outcome; and The Chronic Pain Battery^TM  which comprehensively assesses the chronic pain patient from a bio-psycho-social-behavioral perspective.

TMJ and Pain Specialists, Dentists, Physicians, Psychologists

 

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	“The TMJ Scale is an essential tool in my armamentarium. No pain practitioner should be without it!” Robert Talley, DDS Norman, OK (more)
	“ The TMJ Scale is one screening modality that I deem indispensable and will not practice without. ” Pamela Steed, DDS, MSDIndianapolis, IN (more)
	“ ..its value has proven itself repeatedly.! ” Ira Klemons, DDS, PhD South Amboy, NJ (more)