Do you have pain in your jaw? Is it hard to open and close your mouth? Do you clamp your teeth together without even thinking about it?
Did you know that there are muscles around the joint of your jaw that will cause these symptoms? Let’s talk about those muscles and about that joint–the temporomandibular joint or TMJ.
If you have pain around your TMJ, you may have TMJD. TMJD means dysfunction of the TMJ. That means it doesn’t work as easily as it should.
There are muscles inside your mouth, outside your mouth and in your cheeks that can be tight. They can Continue reading “Muscles in Your Jaw Cause TMJ or Jaw Pain”
