But I'm telling you right now that there's a principle that you have to remember that if a patient comes to you and you have them bite down on the right and they get pain on the left, that I can tell you that it's likely that the patient has...

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For this week's clinical file we have garrett

and garret presents with a 10-year history of intermittent and achy left-sided jaw pain the patient's

pain is provoked when biting down on the right but but relieved when chewing on the left. Which of the

following should be the primary focus of treatment? So we have A, modalities, soft tissue mobilization,

and motor control training. B.

Joint mobilization, postural reeducation, and motor control training.

C.

Trigger point release, joint oscillations and masseter stretching. And D is soft tissue mobilization, use a night guard and masseter stretching so you can see that

this is a fully loaded question I mean there's not a lot up in the question but the answer choices

are kind of what we call three part answer there's three different things and we have to make sure

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