TMJ Help Program

If you suffer from TMJ, you’ve probably come here after researching the subject for a while. The reason you’re here is that you’ve found no reliable method. You have visited lots of information sites, maybe read some books and they all say the same thing:

There is no real cure for TMJ.

Your doctor is probably doing all he can. He’s most likely given you strong pain relief pills and maybe some muscle relaxation medicines. But there is not much more he can do.

All these medicines fail. Even if they reduce the pain a little for a while in the beginning, they’ll stop working little by little as your body gets immune to them.

Many dentist try to help TMJ patients. They make special dental implants. These implants, at best. save your teeth from grinding down at night. But they don’t take your pain away.

So why has science failed you?

You can’t really blame them tough.

TMJ is one of the most complex conditions you’ll ever find.

Every TMJ patient has different original causes for his or her condition. And not only one cause or accident. There are probably several contributing factors causing your pain. Both physical and emotional.

Some people begin to experience TMJ after an accident of some sort. Stress is an other trigger. But most of the time, doctors have no idea what really causes their patients TMJ. This can be very depressive for people who suffer this condition.

Okay, enough of what we don’t know?

What we know for a fact about TMJ is, the jaw joints are always misplaced in some way. It doesn’t necessarily have to be complete misplacement (although sometimes it is). Small wrong misplacement can be enough. And the symptoms can be both nerve racking and painful…

• Clicking, popping jaw joints • Grating sounds • Jaw locking opened or closed • Extreme pain in cheek muscles • Uncontrollable jaw or tongue movements • Clenching or grinding at night • Discomfort or pain to any of these areas • Limited opening • Inability to open the jaw smoothly or evenly • Jaw deviates to one side when opening • Inability to “find bite” with teeth • Frequent, migraine type headaches

…are just few obvious symptoms. You may have some or all of them. Or non at all. Like I said, this is very complicated condition.

Another thing we know for a fact is, the jaw muscles are always very tense. It varies how painful they’re or if they’re torn but they’re always too tense. These weak, tense jaw muscles will push your jaw further out of position and make the problem worse.

The same thing happens when people suffering back problems. The back muscles are weak and tense. The problem may have begun by putting too much strain on the back or working in a wrong position. Or it may have begun with a small injury that didn’t seem so bad at the time.

But then, the back muscles get going. They get even more tense to deal with the small problem. Then you won’t have to feel the back pain for a while. This tension in the back muscles pushes the spine out of place. Just a little bit but that’s enough.

What could have been only minor problem if the person had exercised the back muscles a little, has now become a chronic problem.

The same thing happens with TMJ. What might have started out as minor problem (maybe you got hit in the jaw or had short period of intense stress) is now becoming chronic problem, because the jaw muscles now push your jaw out of place.

This, then leads to series of other problems.

The two jaw joints don’t work as a team any more. You may even be rubbing bone to bone. No wonder everything is stuck. And the pain is horrible. Constant torture.

It’s inevitable that some nerves get squeezed when the joints are misplaced. The nerves that control your balance system, for example, are directly connected to nerves around the jaw. This is partly what causes your headaches and also dizziness and lack of balance.

No muscle is an island. They’re all connected, either directly or through the nerve system. If your jaw muscles get stiff, all the other muscles around it will tense up too. You’ve probably experienced your shoulders and neck become more tense, as your TMJ has grown worse. This is only one example.

Less noticeable is the tension in all the small muscles in your head. Including your other face muscles, tongue, throat and even eyes. You may also feel like your throat is narrower now than before (you’re not crazy it’s true).

You don’t have to imagine all the secondary symptoms this indirect tension from the jaw is creating. You’re experiencing some or all of them yourself…

• arm and finger tingling, numbness and or pain • pain of the hard palate in the mouth • tongue pain • voice fluctuations • swallowing difficulties • hissing, buzzing, ringing, or roaring sounds • blurring of vision • watering of the eyes • swallowing difficulties

…plus hundreds of other secondary symptoms!

The only way to permanently cure TMJ, is to loosen up and strengthen the jaw muscles and also all the other muscles around the it.

This can be accomplished using easy, yet extremely effective exercises:

1)Working directly on the jaw muscles strengthen and loosens them up. Healthy jaw muscles guide the jaw joints into right position instead of misplacing them.

2)The tongue exercises, loosen up the tongue muscle. Even healthy people have too much tension in their tongue. People who suffer from TMJ are way off balance there.

3)Most people never pay any attention to the muscles around the throat. These muscles play, however, a very important role in your body’s function and need to be fit. The throat exercises will do just that. (see secondary throat symptoms).

4)The neck and shoulder muscle exercises are very important to remove tension you may have in your shoulders and neck. These muscles are directly connected to the jaw muscle and quickly tense up as soon as there is any tension in your jaw.

5)All muscles need oxygen to function properly. Stiff muscles, reduce the amount of oxygen they can process. Using specially designed breathing exercises, you can bring these muscles back to life, so they may begin to function properly again.

Thousands of people have already used these exercises to permanently cure their TMJ. Considering how complex this condition is, it’s amazing how well they work for many people.

But before you get your hope to high, I’m going to be brutally honest…

It varies a lot how quickly people receive relief using these exercises. Some people get healed almost over night. Others need up to 2 months to get acceptable results. You’ve been developing this condition for years (even if you just recently experienced the symptoms). So be patient waiting for results.

The muscles around the jaw must regain their old strength and flexibility. So must the jaw muscle itself. But that’s not enough. The jaw muscles must guide and lock the jaw joints into natural healthy position. This happens little by little (often fraction of an inch a day).