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How To Get Rid Of Jaw Pain Following Dental Work

Pain in your jaw after visiting the dentist

Perhaps the dentist held or propped your jaw and head in such a way that it aggravated the muscles of your jaw.  That can cause pain after a dental treatment. Sometimes they really prop a jaw wide open.

Here’s why you have jaw pain following dental work

If you were to hold your fingers and thumb stretched wide open for half an hour, the muscles in your hand would hurt, too.  Muscles get strained when they are stretched too much.

And you have muscles all around your head, jaw and neck.

How can you get rid of the pain in your jaw?

If you tried heat and that makes your jaw feel a little worse then switch to cold packs. I know it’s not as pleasant but heat can cause muscles to feel worse. It can actually cause a little more inflammation or swelling  in the muscles.

Use cold therapy on a wide area for the most benefit.  Place cold packs or a bag of frozen peas on your jaw, temple and neck.  When you feel numbness remove the cold pack.

Did you know the muscles in your temples are also jaw muscles?

If the dentist says he doesn’t see a reason for your pain following your dental treatment that’s good.  Why?

Because muscles don’t show up on x-rays. But, they are most common cause of pain.

If you feel the need for a pain reliever, my personal favorite over the counter muscle pain reliever is Continue reading “How To Get Rid Of Jaw Pain Following Dental Work”

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Natural Remedies For Migraines

Migraines can have many causes.

  1. Sensitivities to certain foods or compounds or smells.
  2. Hormone shifts.
  3. Posture.
  4. A short leg or one flat foot.
  5. Trigger points.

Ha!  I bet you didn’t know about the last three, did you?  I’ll bet your doctor doesn’t, either.  Most don’t.

That’s okay.  My goal is to help you get rid of those miserable migraines.

Sometimes the only way to get better is to be your own doctor or therapist.  Please don’t get me wrong–I love doctors!  Even surgeons!  I wouldn’t be here today talking with you otherwise.

But there is so much for them to know and so little time to spend with you.  And mostly doctors learned about meds in med school.  They didn’t learn much about muscles or the causes of migraines.

I’m talking to you on your level.  I have been where you are.  Migraines took blocks of days out of my life.

But now if I sleep crooked and get a migraine it’s much more controllable and rare.

I wrote an easy-to-use self-help book to help you be your own headache doctor and therapist.

It’s short and to the point because who wants to read tons of words when your head hurts?  There are helpful illustrations, too.  You really can get rid of your migraines and headaches naturally or at least seriously reduce them.

Head Pain Natural Relief: Discover Why You Get Headaches and Migraines and How to Make Them Stop explains why you hurt and exactly what to do to eliminate your headaches or migraine pain.  It’s available in soft cover, which I recommend so you can mark it up, or Kindle version.  If you don’t have a Kindle, Amazon will give you a Kindle reader for your phone or computer for free.

You don’t have to keep suffering when there are natural remedies available for headaches and migraines.

 

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Do You Really Have Arthritis? 8 Tips To Help You Get Rid Of Arthritis Pain In Your Upper Back Naturally

Arthritis is probably the most common word that doctors use. Just because something is stiff or hurts that doesn’t mean it’s arthritis. It could be out of balance or tight muscles pulling over that joint.

Muscles are the most common cause of aches and pains.  Out of balance muscles actually cause arthritis!

There’s a really good chance that your posture is to blame.  Muscles and joints get strained and achey when posture is poor. Try these tips for better posture:

1. If your couch or chair makes Continue reading “Do You Really Have Arthritis? 8 Tips To Help You Get Rid Of Arthritis Pain In Your Upper Back Naturally”

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Stiff Neck? 8 Tips To Get Rid Of Pain In Your Neck

Do you have a stiff neck?  Here are eight ways you can get that tight neck loosened up.

1.  Massage.  If you have massage, does your massage therapist massage, warm and loosen the muscles on the front of your chest and arms and abdomen?  Does she or he or has anyone checked to see whether you have flat arches on your feet?  Did you know that flat feet can cause neck pain?

2.  Posture corrections.  Neck muscles can pull your head forward.  I hope your massage therapist works on the muscles in the front of your neck and chest and on the sides of your neck and not just in the back?  Do you Continue reading “Stiff Neck? 8 Tips To Get Rid Of Pain In Your Neck”

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Tension Headache Natural Relief

Tension headaches should really be called Muscle Tension Headaches.  They happen when we do things that tighten the muscles that attach at the base of the head.  What are some of these things?

1.  Driving.  Most car seats tilt back too far or have headrests that push your head forward.  Either of these will strain the muscles that cause tension headaches.

2.  Couches (sofas) and chairs that have too much backward lean.

3.  Slouching or sitting on your tailbone with a rounded back.  Slouching or leaning sideways will do it, too.

4.  Forward head posture or holding your head in front of your body.

What’s the solution?

1.  Padding Continue reading “Tension Headache Natural Relief”

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Pain In Your Jaw May Be Caused By Infection

If you have serious pain in your jaw, you can try doing massage on the muscles in your face. (<== click here.)  But if that only helps for a short time and the pain comes back that could mean you have an abscess.

An abscess is an infection in the space around a tooth.  It needs to be treated by a dentist.  The first treatment is with an antibiotic to clear the infection and then you and your dentist will decide what to do next.

One man went to his doctor and to a dentist complaining about the pain in his face and the roof of his mouth.  They ‘couldn’t see’ anything.  The dentist ground down the surface of a molar guessing that that might have been the jaw pain problem.

But it wasn’t.

Neither doctor listened to his Continue reading “Pain In Your Jaw May Be Caused By Infection”

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Why Does It Hurt To Have A Massage?

Sometimes it hurts when your muscles are being massaged.  The reason for this is usually that your muscles are on the ‘tight’ side.

Muscles are supposed to be balanced.  That means that they are all working together and none are ‘too strong.’  They are all ‘just right.’

But sometimes that’s not the case.

Sometimes muscles on one side of your body are a little tight and Continue reading “Why Does It Hurt To Have A Massage?”

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How Your Mind Causes Pain

Your thoughts can cause pain.  When you have certain thoughts you will assume certain postures.

If you are depressed, you might hunch forward.  You get a depressed posture. If you don’t, you cannot stay depressed.

If you are sad, it’s reflected in your mouth and face and in your whole body.

When you are happy, it also shows all over.  You smile, your posture improves, you may even glow.  And your immune system will be happier, too!

If you continually keep thoughts that affect your body in a negative way, your body will get used to being in that position.  And when your muscles get ‘stuck’ in a position like that you will end up with pain.

Try this:  Change your posture.  Lift your shoulders and breastbone.  Change your expression.  Lift the corners of your mouth.  Let your eyes crinkle.  Smile.

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Massage Gets Rid Of Pain!

Massage is the oldest pain medication in the world!

You may know that I have been in the massage field for over 30 years.  In that time I have seen over and over and over how beneficial massage is for so many pain issues.

Basically massage is used for 3 things:

1.  To control pain.

2.  To eliminate pain.

3.  To create wellness.

I love massage!  It really can get rid of pain in your body.  It’s good medicine.

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Upper Back Pain Causes and Natural Relief

What’s the most common cause of upper back pain?  Muscles!

Upper back muscles get strained from being stretched and overused.  Then they get cranky and start complaining.

You might feel the complaint as muscle strain, a headache or neck ache, a muscle spasm near your shoulder blade or “knots” in your upper back.

But guess what?

You CAN get rid of upper back pain.  🙂  I have seen it happen over and over.

Once you understand WHY you have Continue reading “Upper Back Pain Causes and Natural Relief”

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Vitamin D3 Gets Rid Of Muscle Pain And Does Lots Of Other Great Things Too

Every time I read a new article about Vitamin D3 (the sunshine vitamin) researchers have discovered new benefits!

Here’s the link to an article that explains how D3 works and what it does.

Vitamin D3 (<– click here)

Vitamin D3 (read the label) is the proper form of D to take and it’s a really low-cost way to boost your health.  If you are one who gets SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) in the darker Continue reading “Vitamin D3 Gets Rid Of Muscle Pain And Does Lots Of Other Great Things Too”

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Who Gets Massage And How Does It Help

I grabbed this article a while ago from The American Massage Therapy Association.  It might not be terribly exciting reading but it shows how the understanding of the value of therapeutic massage is changing.

It also shows why YOU should consider massage as a natural tool for stress and pain relief.

These statistics are old and the numbers have gone up a ton since.

Who Gets Massage, Where And Why?

* According According to the 2009 AMTA consumer survey, an average of 22 percent of adult Americans received at least one massage between July 2008 and July 2009, and Continue reading “Who Gets Massage And How Does It Help”

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What Causes Pain On The Bottom Of Your Foot

What is the cause of pain on the bottom of your feet?

There are several possibilities including the muscles on the bottom side of your foot.  Those muscles can be pressed into with fingers or a tennis or golf ball.  The muscles to press tend to be in the area of foot pain.  They tend to be in the arch.

If those muscles are strained, wearing arch supports in your shoes may help by supporting them.

Another cause that is commonly overlooked is the piriformis muscle.  This muscle runs from your sacrum (the wide, fused end of the spine just above your tailbone) to the head of your femur (top outside of your thigh bone.)

The piriformis is usually covered by the thick gluteal (butt) muscles.  It can develop Continue reading “What Causes Pain On The Bottom Of Your Foot”

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