TMJ (Jaw) Pain
I love it when people come in with jaw pain, usually referred to as TMJ (Temporal Mandibular Joint) pain or TMD (Temporal Mandibular Disorder). Why? Because I can usually make them feel some improvement within 10 to 20 minutes.
I have really good success treating TMJ (jaw pain).
However, I hardly ever treat the jaw directly; instead, I go for the calves. This sounds crazy, I know, but it works.
As you go through the following pages, you will see that the deep muscles of the lower leg connect directly with your jaw muscles, causing them to contract and hurt.
By treating the lower leg, and therefore the deep front line that you will see in a few pages, I can get significant pain relief in the jaw. Usually, within 10 minutes of treating the lower leg on the same side as the jaw pain, the person will stand up and test their jaw, often amazed at how much better they feel. I know it sounds crazy, but once you understand fascia and see these fascial concepts used to treat other problems, it won’t seem so crazy. And if you have TMJ on both sides, I have to treat the backs of both your legs, most likely.
The daughter of an elderly woman with severe right tongue pain wanted to know if I could help her mom. I wasn’t exactly sure if I could, but there was no harm in trying. It’s not shown in the diagrams in this booklet, but the deep front line ends with the tongue. Do you think I started with this elderly woman’s tongue? No. I started working on her right calf, and within 5 minutes, her tongue pain began to decrease. The daughter, her mom, and I were all amazed.
Sinuses can open up, jaw pain can go away, and clicking upon opening and closing can decrease or go away. The reason not to treat the jaw at first is that the jaw muscles are tight due to other muscle problems in the same fascial line. Working the jaw is a secondary problem that will not resolve until you fix the primary problem in the legs. This is a common theme you will see as we continue.
By the time people come to me, they have usually spent thousands treating their jaw pain. But I find the problem isn't just in the jaw; it's elsewhere, as I have described. But dentists cannot work on people below the neck under their license. So, where does this leave people with this condition? I'm not saying they don't need work in their jaw, but a primary source of jaw pain is being completely ignored, not on purpose, but by a lack of knowledge of the fascial lines.