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VIDEO PREVIEW 5 Exercises to End Your Jaw Pain
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TMJ Syndrome (TMD) results from distorted control of the muscles of biting and chewing -- loss of ability to relax those muscles, distortion of their movements, and involuntary tensions and movements. Your jaw movements are distorted, you can't open all the way, you grind your teeth and clench your jaws automatically, without awareness or control.
Tooth pain, a blow to the jaw, and/or dental work are all conditioning influences that contribute to the formation of TMJ Syndrome (TMD). Remember how you avoided chewing with a certain tooth that hurt, how you changed your chewing immediately after dental work, how you tensed during dental work in your jaws and neck. New and lasting chewing movements and muscular tensions form during such periods, particularly if they are intense.
How TMJ Dysfunction (TMD) forms: click here.
How and why this approach works: click here.
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I have organized this program into a series of methodical lessons to eliminate muscular contractions and involuntary actions that constitute TMD, free you from pain, and increase your freedom of jaw movement.
Each exercise leads logically into the next; each exercise prepares you for the next exercise.
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SEE AND HEAR THE UNIQUE APPROACH
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OVERVIEW
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Numerous approaches address TMJ Dysfunction/TMD -- splints, electrical stimulation, dental surgery, massage of the jaw muscles, stretching. You're probably familiar, by now, with at least some of these approaches. As well-meaning as their practitioners or advocates may be, for any of these approaches to work, they must retrain our control of those muscles. If they don't, old patterns of control work against any therapeutic intervention, tend to re-assert themselves throughout the entire course of therapy, and change very slowly. Mechanical solutions or the protection of a mouth guard produce pretty slow changes, don't they? Have you had that experience? So to change how your biting and chewing muscles function efficiently, we have to change how your brain controls their movement and tension, and that involves movement training, which is brain-level learning. Our jaws move in three basic directions:
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Exercise 1 | Freeing Opening and Closing
First Step: Learn graded control of opening and closing movements.
Note: This exercise does not address bite deviations or one sided jaw pain. Later exercises in this program do so.
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Exercise 2 | Side-to-Side MovementsSecond Step: Free and equalize side-to-side grinding movements of chewing.
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Somatic Exercise 3 | Side-to-side, face-forward
Third Step: Equalize grinding jaw movements in the face-forward position.
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Fourth Step: Forward-Backward Movements
Fourth Step: Develop or restore the ability to open the jaws widely.
Tight muscles of forward-backward movement prevent opening widely. |
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Somatic Exercise 5 | All Directions
Fifth Step: Integrating movements in all directions.
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A Clinical Session -- Hands-on Techniques
The Faster, Easier Alternative:
Clinical sessions use techniques that work faster than somatic exercises, based on the same principles as somatic exercises: involuntary muscular habits become free, comfortable control of movement. Advantages:
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For a more complete explanation of TMJ Syndrome / TMD and
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