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Understanding TMJ Headaches Symptoms and Effective Treatments

Published on

JAN 23

2025

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Table of contents

1. Introduction

2. What is TMJ Headache

3. Understanding TMJ Headaches

4. Symptoms of TMJ Headaches

5. How to cure tmj permanently

6. Conclusion

Introduction

Headaches are one of the most debilitating of all symptoms that a human being endures. Due to their high tendency for misdiagnosis, patients are usually going from one specialist to the next, trying to identify its source. In this blog we hope to address a question often lost in diagnosis, what is TMJ Headache.

What is TMJ Headache

When physicians fail to look at the human body in a comprehensive manner and only focus on their area of expertise, it becomes impossible to trace the headache’s origin. From the neurologist to ENT specialists, ophthalmologists and sometimes finally even to the psychiatrist, patients are left with no answers with their ‘mystery’ pains. At the end, many of them get told that their tmj symptoms headache are ‘just in their heads’, or a part of fibromyalgia, or that they need to reduce their stress levels and possibly go on psychiatric medication to manage them. The irony is, the pain is actually in their heads! In their TMJ’s to be exact.

Understanding TMJ Headaches

A huge number of “chronic headache” or “migraine” patients suffer due to untreated and undiagnosed TMJ and Airway disorders.

Medication will only provide temporary relief. For long-lasting relief, a doctor has to first become a good diagnostician and find out all the causes of the problem.

Symptoms of TMJ Headaches

Before we address how to cure tmj permanently, understanding their symptoms is important. TMJ symptoms headache occur in various parts of the head and neck region owing to the vast interconnectedness of the musculature and nerves that course the area. Moreover, the symptoms that start at one point may manifest at another, making it more challenging to come to the origin of the pain. A small discrepancy in muscle balance in the lower back can ascend and manifest as a symptom in the head and vice versa. The symptoms can also manifest, not just as headaches, but as dizziness, nausea, blurring of vision, ear disturbances, etc.

How to cure tmj permanently

Before treating tmj headache, a skilled TMJ specialist should have a thorough understanding of individual muscles, their innervation and general human physiology in order to be an excellent diagnostician. A thorough investigation which encompasses the patient’s life history, habits, occupation, gender, diseases and everything up to the present date should be combined with all the data collected during a consultation to put together a holistic and multi pronged treatment plan.

Conclusion

The treatment modality in tmj symptoms headache should focus on bringing the body into homeostasis by balancing the muscles that connect the TMJ to the rest of the body. Using neuromuscular dentistry, we combine kinesiography, electromyography and therapeutic muscle relaxation to help us identify whether the TMJ is at balance. This helps eradicate the pain and associated symptoms of this, hard to diagnose but easy to treat once diagnosed rightly, disorder.

To treat the most complex of TMJ problems, contact us at TMJ India and get your appointment with our TMJ experts today!

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