Other Ophthalmic Surgery Organ Transplantation Orthopaedics Other Osteoarthritis Osteoporosis Otitis Otorhino. Treatment with Botox provides an alternative therapy that is effective when these debilitating conditions do not respond to conventional treatment. Myofascial pain syndrome is a chronic, painful condition associated with areas of increased muscle tone, which are clinically felt as tight bands punctuated by small areas that are very tender to pressure, often called trigger points. These therapies however, have limitations and are associated with side effects. Ten percent were free of pain at the one-year follow up.
Patients experience relief from symptoms within one week after the first injection.
The treatment was well tolerated with only a few patients having mild and very transient reactions. With the BTX-A injections, patients were able to tolerate more aggressive therapeutic exercise. No side effects were reported in this study. The efficacy of BTX-A is superior and longer lasting than conventional steroid therapy for myofascial pain. In patients with TMD, BTX-A showed statistically significant improvement in pain experience, function, mouth opening and tenderness to palpation in TMD patients.