TMJ and Chiropractic..anybody been helped?!
Question:
TMJ and Chiropractic..anybody been helped?
What method? Changed your bite? Frequency in Adjustments? Painful adjustment?
Answers:
I have had TMJ about six times in my life the first three times I went the root of going to the dentist and getting a specially made mouth guard but that takes months to work
On the other hand when I went to the chiropractor after two treatments I was out of pain.
TMJ in most cases is caused by grinding teeth when sleeping or clenching your jaw during the day after a while this causes muscle spams and that will pull the jaw out of alignment
So to prevent it from coming back some people who grid their teeth will benefit from a mouth guard ( they now even have a mold able one at the drug store )
Relaxation exercises with help if you tend to clench your jaw
I would clench and not even know that I was doing it
I found that chewing a sugar free gum helped at least that way I was not clenching all the time it reminded me to relax my jaw
Ice also will help with the swelling around the joint