Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- * Age (18-88 years)
- * English speaker (written and spoken)
- * Temporal Mandibular Disorder (TMD) for at least 3 months
Exclusion Criteria:
- * Present or past degenerative neuromuscular disease
- * Cardiovascular, neurological diseases, pulmonary abnormalities, kidney disease, liver disease, history of cancer within past 3 years
- * Cervical pain other than TMD related (e.g. stenosis, radiculopathy)
- * Any personal (or family first degree) history of mania, schizophrenia, or other psychoses
- * Severe psychiatric condition (e.g., schizophrenia, bipolar disorders, autism) leading to hospitalization within the last 3 years.
- * Use of antidepressants, ADHD medication, non-over-the-counter painkillers, methadone, benzodiazepines, barbiturates, and/or narcotics during the past 3 months
- * Lifetime alcohol/drug dependence or alcohol/drug abuse in the past 3 months
- * Pregnancy or breastfeeding
- * Color-blindness
- * Pain in jaw or temple in last 3 months due to toothache or infection
- * Any facial trauma that has occurred in the last 6 weeks
- * History of severe facial trauma in the last 3 months
- * Impaired or uncorrected hearing
- * Conditions that would interfere with the VR mask placement (e.g. trauma, burn, infection)
- * Known history of severe motion sickness
- * High blood pressure or symptomatic low blood pressure
- * History of fainting
- * History of angioedema
- * Failed drug test (testing for opiates, cocaine, methamphetamines, amphetamines, and THC)
Ages Eligible for Study:
18 Years to 88 Years (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)
Sexes Eligible for Study: ALL
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
No