Pains + Anxiety +
Health Habits + Trauma = Chronic Pain
Repetitive injuries to TMD joint complex with poor healing ability sets up accumulative damage.
Poor healing ability is set up by poor health habits (PHH) over prolonged periods time
Did you know the jaw joint gets as damage in MVA as neck joints?
Why with multiple traumas as child, any open mouth procedure can set off painful TMD in 30's?
Why does pain from TMD's express itself during 30 to 50 year old women ? Grind & Anxiety peaks
Can you have severely damaged TMD without pain ? Yes, a few osteoarthritis cases show no pain.
Did you know that majority of patients indicate no traumas ever ? Yet when ask specifics about childhood & teen years or our early driving record, we get multiple traumas, blows, falls, or injuries face or jaw.
All these blows, falls, traumas to jaw, cause tearing of Lateral Ligament of TMD:
lateral ligament TMD
MVA: Sudden acceleration deacceleration of condyle will tear lateral ligament of the temporomandibular joint.
In 22 of 25 post-whiplash cases, articular disc disorder was diagnosed.
Weinberg & Lapointe 1987. J Oral Max Surg 45:653
WHIPLASH illustration: Showing effect on TMD
Injury | MRI | Treatment |
---|---|---|
Neck | maybe | maybe |
Jaw joint | no | no |
Certain blows to jaw with right force and direction can tear the lateral ligament to jaw joint
Fall, produces tearing to lateral ligament of disc TMD
Neck muscle contraction causes hyoid muscle brace
Hyoid muscle brace causing jaw muscles contract
Jaw muscle brace increasing contraction rate of clenching braces muscles
The neck system aggravating chewing system is one reason why no one doctor or health care professional can manage TMD, it is too complex pathology as well as too complex joint.
Pains + Anxiety +
Health Habits + Trauma = Chronic Pain
Repetitive injuries to TMD joint complex with poor healing ability sets up accumulative damage.
Poor healing ability is set up by poor health habits (PHH) over prolonged periods time
Did you know the jaw joint gets as damage in MVA as neck joints?
Why with multiple traumas as child, any open mouth procedure can set off painful TMD in 30's?
Why does pain from TMD's express itself during 30 to 50 year old women ? Grind & Anxiety peaks
Can you have severely damaged TMD without pain ? Yes, a few osteoarthritis cases show no pain.
Did you know that majority of patients indicate no traumas ever ? Yet when ask specifics about childhood & teen years or our early driving record, we get multiple traumas, blows, falls, or injuries face or jaw.
All these blows, falls, traumas to jaw, cause tearing of Lateral Ligament of TMD:
lateral ligament TMD
MVA: Sudden acceleration deacceleration of condyle will tear lateral ligament of the temporomandibular joint.
In 22 of 25 post-whiplash cases, articular disc disorder was diagnosed.
Weinberg & Lapointe 1987. J Oral Max Surg 45:653
WHIPLASH illustration: Showing effect on TMD
Injury | MRI | Treatment |
---|---|---|
Neck | maybe | maybe |
Jaw joint | no | no |
Certain blows to jaw with right force and direction can tear the lateral ligament to jaw joint
Fall, produces tearing to lateral ligament of disc TMD
Neck muscle contraction causes hyoid muscle brace
Hyoid muscle brace causing jaw muscles contract
Jaw muscle brace increasing contraction rate of clenching braces muscles
The neck system aggravating chewing system is one reason why no one doctor or health care professional can manage TMD, it is too complex pathology as well as too complex joint.
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