[Experiences obtained with the use of schulte's diagnostic program in myoarthropathies (author's transl)]

Using Schulte's diagnostic and therapeutic system of treating the pain-dysfunction syndrome, 165 patients were included in a program of myogymnastic self-treatment. The results obtained on reexamination of 96 patients confirmed the correlations observed by Schulte between the principal symptoms (painful side and lateral deviation of the lower jaw) and numerous causal factors. The diagnostic schemes used to search for causal factors may thus be regarded as having proved successful. They allow functional temporomandibular complaints to be classed in groups of diseases by taking into account the principal symptoms alone, namely, painful side and deviation of the lower jaw upon opening the mouth.