Services TMJ dysfunction
What if your headache started in the jaw?
The joint that opens and closes your mouth, the TMJ, is one of the most used joints you have. When it falls out of rhythm, the pain rarely stays there. It turns into headache, ear pain, neck pain, and almost nobody connects one thing to the other.
Signs nobody links to the TMJ
Maybe the problem was never just "tension".
Frequent headache
The one that starts at the temple or behind the eyes, and no test explains it.
A click when you open your mouth
A click or a grind when you yawn, chew, or talk.
A jaw that locks
The mouth that catches and will not open all the way, sometimes with pain.
Teeth grinding
Night bruxism. You wake with a tired face and teeth that are wearing down.
Ringing and ear pain
A blocked-ear feeling or ringing with no hearing cause.
Tension in the neck and face
Face and neck muscles always tight, with no break.
Checked two or more? Look at the TMJ before you treat each symptom on its own.
Connecting the dots
One joint. Several pains that look unconnected.
The TMJ is the temporomandibular joint, where your jaw meets your skull, just in front of the ear. It works all day: chewing, talking, swallowing, yawning.
The muscles that move it link up with the muscles of your face, neck, and head. So when the TMJ falls out of rhythm, pain spreads through that network. You treat the headache, the ear, and the neck, and never reach the source.
Physical therapy steps in right there: at the joint and at the muscle that drives it.
How we treat it
We treat the joint and what overloads it.
"A lot of chronic headache can start in a TMJ nobody looked at."
Dr. Dyogo Oliveira, physiotherapist with a specialization in Trauma and Orthopedics and specific training in the TMJ, manual therapy, and dry needling. More than 10 years treating pain whose source gets missed. Meet Dr. Dyogo →
Before you decide to live with it, it is worth a look.
The assessment looks at whether your pain starts in the TMJ and, if it does, which treatment path fits. No doctor's referral needed. Downtown Pindamonhangaba.
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