Long-term outcomes of shamanic treatment for temporomandibular joint disorders.
The Permanente journal January 1, 2012 Nancy H Vuckovic, Louise A Williams, Jennifer Schneider et al. 13 citations
For women with temporomandibular joint disorders (TMDs) who had not responded to standard medical care, shamanic healing led to improvements in usual pain, worst pain, and functional impairment that persisted unchanged for nine months after treatment ended. The study followed 23 women aged 25 to 55 in Portland, Oregon, who reported their pain and disability at one, three, six, and nine months after treatment. The lasting effects suggest that shamanic healing may benefit individuals with TMDs who are highly responsive to external stressors and have psychosocial difficulties, described from a shamanic perspective as 'dispirited.'