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let’s talk about tmj relief okay there’s

three things that i’m going to teach you

today that can give you a tremendous

amount of relief if you search out

information on tmj you’re going to find

dangerous treatments actual surgery

which has major

complications drugs people using splints

that really never do anything and maybe

you went to a chiropractor to get it

adjusted

being in practice for 30 years and

working with the jaw and giving people

adjustments to the jaw i’ve never once

found that to be successful and simply

because it’s not really a bone on a

place that just needs to be put back

into place it’s a combination of a lot

of muscle tension you have a little disc

inside the joint right here you have a

lot of things going on however i do want

to say the number one reason

or the root cause of tmj from my

experience

is related to recent dental work you had

some

work done in your teeth and every time

you bite or chew

it throws off the mechanics of your

entire not just your jaw

but the muscles around the jaw

the muscles in your upper neck the

muscles that go down the neck into the

shoulders it can create a cascade of all

sorts of compensations that can really

throw your body off so if you had recent

dental work

go back to the dentist

and have them double check to make sure

that your all your teeth are fitting

perfectly because just one tooth that’s

not quite fitting can create

a huge effect on your jaw

now i do want to say one other thing

that i found especially if you have

pain in your right side on the right

side of the jaw right here

suspect potential gallbladder problems

why because the gallbladder being

underneath the right rib cage

is very close to the diaphragm and

there’s a nerve in the diaphragm

that if irritated if the gallbladder is

a little bit swollen can activate this

nerve

which goes right up through here to your

neck and the acupressure meridian system

as well can cross over and cause pain in

your right jaw

normally it’s going to be in the right

shoulder or the upper back but it can go

right into the right jaw so if you’re

working on the jaw for the next 10 years

and the real problem is your gallbladder

you’re never going to see change so

whether you have pain clicking

popping let’s just dive right into the

three steps okay

the first step is you’re going to be

first locating

which

side it hurts the most okay let’s say

for example it’s the left side right

through and here and it hurts right in

this articulation right here what you

want to do is you want to massage okay

the opposite

side on the muscles okay and you’re

going to be basically working around the

joint so if it hurts on this side right

here

don’t massage on that side work on the

opposite side and and so you’re going to

basically rub right above the tmj joint

right through in here and just going to

massage that really good and then you’re

going to work below it because there’s

muscles too below that joint and you’re

going to just really massage that really

good and even right into the joint as

well which is right in the front of that

your opening on your ear right here so

you’re just going to massage this and

what you’re going to notice when you’re

doing this is going to be very very very

tender like most people haven’t realized

how tender it is on the opposite side

where you hurt you start massaging this

area right through and here up into your

skull right through in here

down through here

and it’s going to bring relief to this

site so that’s number one

um i always recommend that you rate the

severity of pain from a scale from 1 to

10 and then re-rate it after you do this

and then ask yourself uh did the pain

shift okay let’s say it went up or went

down

then you massage on the opposite side so

if the pain went down you massage it a

little bit lower

to the tmj on that side okay and it

doesn’t have to be any specific type of

massage it can be irregular or whatever

you’re just going to activate the

opposite side okay so that’s step one

all right step two okay and this is

probably going to give you the most

relief

you have the buccinator muscle and the

masseter muscle okay that comes right

through here

and

you’re gonna massage that okay now the

way you’re gonna do that

is you’re gonna put your fingers or a

finger or thumb in your mouth let me see

if i can show you this a little bit

better when you put a finger up into

your inside of your cheek on this side

what you want to do is you want to come

up a little high okay it’s called

superior you want to press up in here

and press outward right through in here

okay then you’re going to angle it to

the mid part and press outward right

here

and then you’re going to angle it a

little lower and press outward right

here so we’re going on the inside of the

mouth and the outside of the teeth okay

behind a few big muscles and we’re gonna

gently

press up and out okay and i’ll show you

on myself

it’s gonna be very tender okay but it’s

gonna give you a tremendous amount of

relief

because this muscle is in a constant

state of tightness and spasm so you’re

going to give

your muscles a lot of relief you’re

going to do both sides so as you just

saw i pressed upward and then outward

and downward and of course you’re going

to spend more time holding that position

but don’t try to push it because it’s

going to be very very tender and you’re

going to hold those positions until that

muscle relaxes it’s going to release and

your jaw is going to feel really good so

let me do it on the other side with my

finger

so that would be step two okay so we’re

working on the

main muscles that cause your jaw to shut

and we’re stretching them a bit to

create more space in your jaw

that alone will probably make you feel

really good okay that’s step two

and then number three we’re going to

exercise the opposing jaw closing

muscles

the great

majority of the strength of your jaw is

in the closing action not opening your

mouth okay and so you spend a lot of

time

clenching or closing so those muscles a

lot of times are over balanced and to

the point where they can create

pain in your in your joints

for this exercise you want to work on

the opposing muscles the muscles that

open your mouth okay

so the way you’re going to do this is

you’re going to just keep your mouth

shut okay and you’re going to hold your

chin and you’re going to try to open

your mouth like this and you’ll do like

three sets of ten okay now of course if

you do this in public don’t mention my

name because it looks kind of funny when

you’re doing this but you’re just

strengthening the opposing muscles that

have been overworked again giving your

jaw muscle a chance to balance itself

out all right there you have it go ahead

and do this technique right now and

comment down below if it gives you any

relief

and if you haven’t seen the video on the

right sided jaw pain that’s related to

the gallbladder check it out right here