Malvern ITI study club- Zoom meeting

6.30-8pm 21st October 2020

meeting id: 923 3747 2765

passcode: 068377

Lecture Topic:

Physiotherapy Management Of TMD & Orofacial Pains In A Multidisciplinary Environment - A 2020 Perspective

Presented by Darron Goralsky

Darron has 26 years’ experience treating TMJ disorder, face and neck related conditions. Darron Graduated as Physiotherapist in Johannesburg South Africa in 1993. His Postgraduate qualifications include a certification in Orthopaedic Manipulative Therapy as well as Craniosacral Therapy. Darron Immigrated to Melbourne in 1997 and has been in his own practice since 1998.

Darron’s initial exposure to the niche field of TMD highlighted to him that although many of these conditions had a very largely musculo-skeletal component, they were not being well managed by the physiotherapy and other manual therapy professions. Responsibility for management was however placed on the Dental profession alone. 

Over the many years of his involvement in this field,  Darron began formulating his own approach and has attended many postgraduate courses, traveled internationally to spend time with leading TMJ experts and regularly attends local and international conferences on Temporomandibular Disorders and Oro-facial Pain. Darron realised the need for and benefits of including a physiotherapy type treatment approach for these conditions in a multidisciplinary environment.  Embracing the multidisciplinary model, he has incorporated Dr Damian Teo on his therapy team alongside his TMJ Physiotherapists. Damian is a Dentist with a postgraduate qualification in Dental Sleep Medicine and experience and exclusive focus treating TMD and sleep related issues. 

Darron is a member of the Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA), the Australian Branch of The American Academy of Craniofacial Pain (AACP) and an member of the Australia New Zealand Academy of Orofacial Pain (ANZAOP), delivering a lecture at their 2019 Conference in Adelaide. He has also presented lectures to Dental Special Interest Groups, Physiotherapy Groups and to both Medical Practitioners and Dentists

Darron, alongside 3 other Dental Specialists, is a regular lecturer for the Melbourne Dental School on a full-day course for qualified Dentists on the Multidisciplinary Management Of TMD (Temporomandibular disorders). 

As of 2020, Darron no longer consults directly with patients as he has dedicated his focus to ongoing training and mentoring his growing clinical team, all of whom he has personally trained in his approach.  Darron is also committed to continuously ensuring that his approach stays at the forefront of evidence based practice and he and his team are always furthering their knowledge and professional development though courses, workshops and conferences.