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2009 3 Nov

TMJ Physical Therapy

She asked her dentist, she asked her doctor, she asked her friends and they all gave equally unhelpful answers. So, finally, she asked Google. Who else could she ask?

Does TMJ physical therapy actually work?

She received an answer she didn’t expect, she couldn’t quite believe it, but she decided what else was there left to lose. She found out that you didn’t even need a physiotherapist to cure TMJ. All you needed were a set of specific TMJ exercises that are designed to relieve stress on the jaw by stretching, massaging and strengthening certain muscles in the body.

But the shocking part was that people who have been using these exercises have had their TMJ symptoms disappear in only three days. Remaining skeptical, she researched further and found that most of the time it actually took about 2 weeks for the exercises to relieve symptoms fully.

This seemed a bit more realistic and even a bit exciting, in a couple of weeks, this nagging pain will finally go away.

She found a book full of exercises and massages for TMJ and she decided to start right away. The exercises ended up only taking about 15 minutes to do. They were very easy to follow and didn’t hurt at all.

What she liked most of all were the massages. She found that rubbing certain places in her mouth eased the pain in her jaw instantly. Everything else felt quite nice and she decided that it must be working.

She continued doing the exercises for the next 10 days and without realising it was chewing on a rather tough piece of steak with no pain in her jaw!

You can try out the TMJ exercises that relieve pain and cure your TMJ symptoms below.

Click here to start using the exercises: physical therapy for TMJ

TMJ dysfunction, sometimes labeled TMD, is a disharmony between the way the jaw joint works in its most unstrained position and the way the teeth occlude during those movements. There can be many causes of this disharmony.

Some possible causes of this disharmony include tooth loss, restorative dentistry without properly adjusted occlusion, accidents (like whiplash), mal-positioned and/or underdeveloped cranial or jawbones, and perhaps habits like clenching or grinding the teeth. For optimal TMJ health to exist, there must be a harmony between the way the mandibular (lower jaw) condyle is positioned in the glenoid fossa (joint space) and the way the upper and lower teeth occlude (come together). If this harmony does not exist, one or more of four conditions will develop. There could be:

1. excessive wear patterns on the teeth
2. fracturing of the teeth
3. loosening of the some or all of the teeth
4. jaw lock, jaw clenching and many other symptoms

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