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Antigravity muscles
Posterior cervical muscles...hold the head up against gravity, (Active stability)
Passive Stability of the craniocervical posture control
ligaments
Cervical lordosis:
compensatory
arrangement of the spine to
support head
Craniocervical stability
Muscles as an
elastic band:
“If one breaks,
the balance of
the entire system
is disrupted and
the head posture
is altered”
(Rocabado, 1998)
FHP:
hyoid bone is moved forward and
upward ----> air passage restored.
Cervical spine is a predisposing and precipitating variable to
masticatory muscle pain or bruxism
theories:
1) Convergence between the trigeminal and the upper
three cervical nerves
2) Synergic relationship between cervical spine masticatory
muscles
3) Patients present bruxism in response of neck pain
Trigeminal nerve (Cranial nerve 5)
has 3 branches
Ophthalmic (V1)
Maxillary (V2)
Mandibular (V3)