Treatment For Pain In Jaw Joint

TMJ can cause many problems to your health is the symptoms goes unchecked. It hurts when you chew, it hurts when you open your mouth… actually when doesn’t it hurt? Having pain in your jaw joint is excruciating and annoying. But do you know why it’s happening? Most likely your suffering from TMJ, it’s a condition that is experienced by approximately 30% of the population.

So How Do We Fix It?

There are many ways to go about treating pain in the jaw joint, some dentists recommend mouth guards and splints, coupled with muscle relaxants and pain relief drugs. This is of course what most people do, but they are usually disappointed with the results.

Mouth Guards and Splints For Jaw Pain?

Mouth guards will only prevent teeth grinding and they will only prevent that during your sleep. Most people who suffer from TMJ find that they will end up grinding through the mouth guard anyway.

In some cases the mouth guard is fitted well enough to slowly move the jaw back to it’s proper position. But you need someone who is very experienced and skilled to make something like this. Even if they get it right, it can still be hit and miss.

That’s why many people are now finding relief through TMJ exercises. These exercises realign your jaw by strengthening, stretching and massaging certain muscles in your body to release tension in your muscles and tendons in your jaw. The techniques are proving to be incredibly powerful, with some people reporting permanent relief in as little as three days. This is not the norm however and these exercises aren’t to be mistaken for some miracle cure. They require you to complete them every day for about 10 minutes during a 10 – 14 day period and sometimes longer. But they do work.