Acupressure Treatment To Relieve Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMJ) Pain

If you have symptoms of facial pain, clicking of the lower jaw, and sometimes your jaw join would be locked, even have migraine, these are the symptoms of TMJ. We have certain acupressure points that can gradually relieve those symptoms.

What causes these TMJ symptoms?

One big reason is stress. When you are stressed out, you are not sleeping in a very deep sleep, so you may clench your jaws and this can cause misalignment of the jaw. Also, if you have osteoporosis and are taking Fosamax for your condition, it can cause inflammation of the joint and that can also lead to arthritis.

In Chinese medicine, when you grind your teeth at night, you might have a parasite in your gut. If this is the case, you need to check if you have parasites in your body and use herbs or other medications to treat the parasites. That will stop the tooth grinding while you are asleep. All of these causes can lead to muscle tightness around the joint or a misalignment of the joint.

How can we prevent TMJ?

First, you got to avoid excessive chewing gum or excessive yawning. You also need to reduce your stress with acupuncture or herbal teas. By doing acupuncture in Overland Park, we can instantly relax the muscles around the temporomandibular joint and one of the points I want to show you is called the Stomach 7 (St 7). If you find the angle of the lower jaw, you need to go straight upwards and then you will be able to feel the indentation at the same level of the lower border of the ear one and a half cun in front of your earlobe.

When you find the indentation, type the press that. That will instantly help relieve the muscle tension. So before you go to sleep, if you press the point for a minute, so when you clench your teeth, you will not experience any type of pain in your jaw. That will help relax the muscles around the jaw joint, so you won’t have the joint misaligned when you’re in a deep sleep.