Silverio Di Rocca
M.P.R International School, Switzerland
Title: The stomatognathic system’s role in postural and physical rehabilitation
Biography
Biography: Silverio Di Rocca
Abstract
When dealing with chronic pain, the holistic approach in diagnosis and treatment is very important. We live in a time where super-specialization in medicine, leads professionals to be blind and unprepared in front of patients with problems that spread beyond their sectorized specialty. We seem to have forgotten that the human body is not made up of small sectors, but is one, indivisible whole. In the specific case of postural and physical rehabilitation, specialists are too often confronted with treatments that should work but somehow do not have lasting results, due to interferences from other parts of the body. In particular the stomatognathic system is a great disturber when a balanced mandibular position is lost. With the jaw being part of the muscle chains, through the hyoid system that connects it with the rest of the body, it is extremely important to have an understanding of this complex relation to obtain balanced and functional results, that are in harmony throughout the whole body.